For June 8th
1885 - A killing frost occurred at Fargo, ND. This date remains the latest on record.
1918 - Residents in Oklahoma who were in the right place at the right time, were treated to a rare spectacle, a total eclipse of the sun. The narrow path of totality extended roughly from near Alva, to Enid, to Henryetta, to Poteau, with Oklahoma City and Tulsa being near the south and north edges of the path. Totality lasted about a minute in Oklahoma. This was the last total solar eclipse to be visible from anywhere in the Oklahoma and north Texas area. Local residents who do not want to travel very far to see one, will have to wait until April 8, 2024, for the next one in this area.
1920 - Yosemite Valley, CA plunged to 14°; their coldest June temperature on record.
1950 - Two inches of snow fell at Billings, MT. This is their latest measurable snowfall on record. The high for the day was only 42°, a record low maximum.
1951 - Two tornadoes, one rated F4 and the other F2, were caught on 16mm film at Corn, OK. This was the first film ever taken of a tornado in the U.S.
1953 - The worst tornado of record for the state of Michigan killed 116 persons. Flint MI was hardest hit. The tornado, half a mile in width, destroyed 200 homes on Coldwater Road killing entire families. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - A tropical storm (Tropical Storm #1) moved in from the Gulf of Mexico and crossed northwest Florida, spawning a tornado outbreak and flooding rainfall. Five people drown in the Gulf of Mexico when a small fishing vessel capsized in high seas. A shrimp boat was sunk off Ft. Myers, and several other boats were driven ashore south of Tampa. At least 9 Tornadoes were reported in Alachua, Marion, Clay, Putnam, and Duval counties (Jacksonville area). Tornadoes damaged roofs and uprooted trees. Heavy rains of up to 19" in 48 hours caused much local flooding and considerable agricultural damage, closed many roads and washed out several small bridges. Two hundred people were evacuated from flooded residential areas in Taylor County.
1964 - In Montana, the Gibson Dam, which feeds the Sun River, overflowed. The result was 34 deaths due to drowning.
1966 - A tornado ripped right through the heart of the capitol city of Topeka KS killing sixteen persons and causing 100 million dollars damage. The tornado, which struck during the evening, cut a swath of near total destruction eight miles long and four blocks wide. It was the most destructive tornado of record up until that time. (David Ludlum)
1974 - Severe thunderstorms spawned at least twenty-three tornadoes in Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours. One of the tornadoes struck the town Drumright killing sixteen persons and injuring 150 others. A tornado struck the National Weather Service office in Oklahoma City, and two tornadoes hit the city of Tulsa. Thunderstorms in Tulsa also produced as much as ten inches of rain. Total damage from the storms was around thirty million dollars. It was the worst natural disaster of record for Tulsa. (Storm Data)
1977 - A hailstorm covered the ground across a swath up to 7 miles wide and 80 miles long in southeastern Wisconsin. Snowplows had to be called out to clear the roads.
High winds and hail struck northeastern Illinois during the afternoon. Winds of 60 mph and large hail caused the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport to be abandoned for the first time in its history.
It was a chilly morning across pasts of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. Naked Creek & Luray, VA dropped to 31° and Dulles Airport dropped to 36°.
1981 - Severe thunderstorms in northeast and central Illinois produced hail the size of grapefruits at Kankakee. One tornado traveled along a 77 mile intermittent path from Brooklyn, in Schuyler County, east-southeastward to near Springfield. A second tornado was on the ground intermittently for 80 miles, originating southeast of Pekin and traveling to Mahomet, northwest of Champaign. Minor damage resulted from both tornadoes.
1982 - Violent early morning thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 80 mph which caused considerable structural damage and power outages in Topeka, KS and Kansas City, MO.
In Callaway County, MO a severe thunderstorm dropped hail that measured up to 4 inches in diameter. Severe winds reached 100 mph in Randolph county, MO.
1983 - Record cold prevailed across parts of Michigan. Sault St. Marie dropped to 28° and Alpena fell to 30°; both establishing record lows for the date.
1985 - An F3 tornado tracked 68 miles through Price and Oneida Counties in Wisconsin. Two people were killed and 42 were injured. Damage was set at $6 million dollars. Huge hailstones, up to 6 inches in diameter, accompanied the tornado.
The high of 110° tied the all-time high at Garden City, KS while Osage, IA set their all-time June record with 101°.
1987 - Thunderstorms in the northeastern U.S. produced large hail and damaging winds in Vermont injuring two persons. Thunderstorms in Ohio produced wind gusts to 75 mph near Akron, and deluged Pittsfield with two inches of rain in thirty minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Overnight thunderstorms in Iowa produced 5.20 inches of rain at Coon Rapids. Thunderstorms in the Florida Keys drenched Tavernier with 7.16 inches of rain in 24 hours. Eleven cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast Region during the day and evening. Severe thunderstorms spawned 17 tornadoes, including one which injured ten persons and caused a million dollars damage at Orange Beach, AL. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 90 mph killed three persons and injured four others at Mobile AL. Thunderstorms also deluged Walnut Hill and Avalon Beach, FL, with eight inches of rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - Two-day total rainfall topped 30 inches at Bombay, India. This was the heaviest in four decades.
1993 - Severe thunderstorms moved across northern and central Illinois during the early evening hours. The storms produced winds near 70 mph south of Springfield and west of Pawnee. A small tornado developed from the system and moved through Illiopolis, damaging over 5 dozen buildings. Other tornadoes touched down near Decatur and Champaign.
An F2 tornado struck four farmsteads, damaging one severely, just southeast of Osage, IA. Several small out buildings and barns were damaged but the farm houses were spared. Two F0 tornadoes touched down in Olmsted County, MN in Dover and Pleasant Grove, three F0 tornadoes in Mower County, Minnesota in Dexter and just south of Leroy and Grand Meadow, and an F0 tornado touched down ten miles south of Spring Valley. On this same date, 18 other tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin. Prairie du Chien, WI had 3.22 inches of rain.
1995 - Classic supercell thunderstorms spawned 21 tornadoes in the north Texas Panhandle. 5 of the tornadoes were rated F4 on the Fujita scale, one which tracked through the center of Pampa injuring 7 people and causing $30 million in damages. The Project Vortex team (20 vehicles, including a state of the art truck-mounted Doppler Radar, and two P3 aircrafts) were all over the storms, collecting an incredible storm dynamics, structure, and environment data set, on the last day of the two year funded project no less. The team witnessed one of the F4 tornadoes near Allison, and said it was one of biggest and meanest appearing tornadoes they had ever seen.
At Crane, TX, four inch diameter hail fell for 10 minutes.
1997 - A 16 year old male received an indirect lightning strike. He was taken to Ward Memorial Hospital at Monahans, MS and transferred to Odessa Medical Center for testing, and was released late that night. The boy and his mother were walking across their porch leaving the house when lightning struck a metal pipe along the side of the house. The boy was struck in the head by a glancing blow from the bolt, knocked to the ground, but sustained no burns. He was dazed but never lost consciousness; said he remembered feeling the shock as the bolt went through his body. They said the lightning came seemingly from nowhere as all the previous thunder had seemed quite distant. Light rain was falling at the time of the incident.
2001 - Heavy rain falls from Tropical Storm, after it lingers over Texas. On the night of June 8 to wee hour of June 9, up 28 inches of rain falls in the Greens Bayou basin in Northeast Houston. Heavy rain leads to 22 deaths in the Houston area. More than 48,000 homes were damaged (11,000 with major damage and 3,600 completely destroyed). More than 70,000 automobiles were flooded during the storm. In Harris County alone, an estimated 300 billion gallons of water fell. Allison is still the only tropical storm to have her name retired by the World Meteorological Organization.
2004 - Heavy rain and large hail caused flooding and flash flooding in parts of Colorado. In Golden, heavy rains triggered a small mudslide. Automated rain gauges measured 2 to 3 inches of rain in an hour. Numerous streets were inundated with 1 to 3 feet of water and hail. Many windows in home and auto were shattered by the large hail.
2007 - Denver recorded two records for the date. The low of 31° established a record low for the date and became the latest freeze on record.
2008 - After heavy rains and severe weather the previous day, a lingering warm front across upper Midwest lead to further storm development on this date, resulting in more heavy rains. This rainfall exasperated the already dangerous flooding conditions across parts of southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and southwest into central Wisconsin ¦resulting in a flood of historic proportions. Many roads were already closed from the previous days rain due to water over the roadways, mudslides, or partial washouts. Rains on this date worsened the conditions, leading to more road closures, sandbagging, and some evacuations. Some area rivers responded with a foot per hour rises, while others eventually exceeded their river gauges ability to record the river levels. These gauges were under water themselves. All-time record crests were set at a few locations, with top five records at many others. A listing of some of the record crests with all-time rank, at the time of this event: Upper Iowa River at Dorchester 22.5 feet (all-time record) and Decorah 17.9 feet (all-time record), The Turkey River at Elkader 30.9 feet (all-time record), El Dorado 22.11 feet (all-time record), and Garber 29.13 feet (4th highest on record), The Cedar River at Charles City 25.55 feet (all-time record), The Kickapoo River at La Farge 15.88 feet (all-time record), Viola 21.25 feet (all-time record), Readstown 19.65 feet (all-time record), Soldiers Grove 21.21 feet (2nd highest on record), Gays Mills 20.44 feet (all-time record), and Steuben 19.15 feet (all-time record). Two-day rainfall amounts totaled from generally from 4 to 7 inches.
2009 - Vostok, Antarctica shivered with a late autumn low of -108°.
2010 - A flash flood swept away a municipal worker helping in evacuation efforts in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul. Heavy rains, which have been pounding the city since the weekend, caused a river on the city's Asian side to burst its banks, inundating dozens of houses.
At least 12 people have died and five are missing after a packed ferry capsized in storms in north-east Bangladesh. The ferry was carrying about 35 passengers including many school children. The accident took place in Sunamganj district, about 87 miles north of Dhaka.
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This Day In Weather History
For June 12th
1878 - A strong storm dropped egg-sized hailstones on Lachute, Ontario Canada. The accumulation halted train traffic.
1881 - Severe thunderstorms spawned more than half a dozen tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley. Five of the tornadoes touched down near Saint Joseph MO. In south central Kansas a tornado nearly wiped out the town of Floral. Hail and high winds struck Iowa and southern Minnesota. In Minnesota, Blue Earth City reported five inches of rain in one hour. (David Ludlum)
1884 - Los Angeles, CA received its greatest June rainstorm ever with 0.87 inches ending on this date.
1885 - A tornado in Iowa blew part of a train off the tracks, injuring three passengers. Three coaches and a baggage car were lifted into the air and onto a field.
1899 - An F5 tornado struck New Richmond, WI. 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. A circus was playing in New Richmond, which meant an additional 1,000 people were in town for the performances. Over 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed as the tornado went straight through the center of town. Six families had four or more members killed. A 3,000-pound safe was blown a full block. High visibility limited the death toll.
1915 - An F4 tornado moved northeast from northwest of Waterville, IA crossing the Mississippi River two miles south of Ferryville, WI. The last damage ended near Soldiers Grove. A man and his daughter were killed in one of three homes that were obliterated southwest of Heytman, a small railroad station on the Mississippi River. 60 buildings and 8 homes were destroyed in Wisconsin. This tornado caused approximately $200,000 in damage. In addition to this tornado, an F2 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Clayton Counties in northeast Iowa from three miles south of West Union to two miles south of Postville. One farm was devastated, the house and barn leveled. Heavy machinery was thrown 300 yards. Clothing was carried two miles.
1918 - Victorville, CA recorded their highest temperature for June at 114°. This was also their second highest temperature ever (116° - 7/10/2002). This was followed be their warmest night on record with a low of 88°.
1942 - A tornado smashed a four block area in the southwest suburbs of Oklahoma City, OK. 35 people were killed, making it one of the ten deadliest ever in the state. The twister completely demolished 73 homes and damaged 31 others. The Oklahoma City area has been struck by tornadoes more than 90 times since 1890.
1947 - A heavy wet snow blanketed much of southern and central Wyoming, and gave many places their heaviest and latest snow of record. Totals included 18.4 inches at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne, and 4.5 inches at Casper. (11th-12th) (The Weather Channel)
1948 - The Columbia River Basin flood peaked on this date in the Northwest. The flood produced the highest water level in the basin since the flood there in 1894. The damage estimate for the 1948 flood was $101 million dollars and 75 lives were lost.
1949 - Las Vegas, NV recorded 0.01 inches of rain, setting a daily record. This was the only measurable rainfall to occur on this date since records began in 1937.
1956 - The upper Midwest was in the midst of a six-day stretch of 90 degree plus temperatures. The high of 97° at Chicago, IL and 95° at Rockford, IL set daily high temperature records.
1959 - Heavy thundershowers were accompanied by a small tornado at Celeron near Jamestown, NY which caused damage to a boat house and recreation park estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars range. A two inch fall of rain in 75 minutes was recorded in Colden, NY.
1968 - The first day of June saw Tropical Storm Abby form in the western Caribbean Sea. The storm moved northeast and crossed central Florida, briefly reaching hurricane status in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical storm then moved along the coast of Florida and into Georgia, then made a loop as a tropical depression through the Carolinas, moving south to the North Carolina/South Carolina coast. The depression turned northeast and moved along the coast of North Carolina then dissipated on the 12th southeast of the Delmarva. Locations that received record daily rainfalls included: Philadelphia, PA: 3.05 inches, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.: 2.23 inches, Dulles Airport at Sterling, VA: 1.88 inches, Wilmington, DE: 1.75 inches, Newark, NJ: 1.74 inches and Williamsport, PA: 1.30 inches.
1969 - A record late snow blanketed parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska. 5 inches accumulated at Great Falls, MT and just east of Broadus, MT, with 10 inches reported at Deerfield, SD. Traces of snow fell as far south as Kimball, NE. Other snowfall totals included: Leiter, MT: 5 inches, Burgess Junction, WY: 4 inches, Sheridan, WY: 3 inches, Pryor, MT: 1 inch, Red Lodge, MT: 0.5 inches and Miles City, MY: 0.1 inches.
The low at Billings, MT dropped to 32° on the 12th and 13th, tying records for June.
1975 - Sydney, Australia's second longest dry spell on record came to an end. The dry spell lasted 34 days which started on May 10th.
1978 - Lightning killed a 14 year old boy running home to avoid the rain at Lauderhill, FL. The lightning struck a pine tree near the boy and severely burned his legs and knocked his shoes off.
1983 - The state of Utah was beseiged by floods and mudslides. Streets in downtown Salt Lake City were sandbagged and turned into rivers of relief. The town of Thistle was completely inundated as a mudslide made a natural dam. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - Winds of 210 mph measured at a height of 1.84 miles on the mountain Zugspitze in southern Germany.
1987 - Severe Flooding developed across Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery Counties when 5 to 10 inches of rain fell across the area. The Highlands and Crosby areas in eastern Harris County were hardest hit as the area received up to nearly 12 inches of rain. The water rose into around 200 homes in the area. The water was reported to be knee deep along Main Street in downtown Highlands where several businesses were flooded. Almost 10 inches of rain fell in the San Jacinto drainage below Lake Houston (most of it on the afternoon of the 11th). The heavy rains extended northward above Lake Houston into and along Luce Bayou. There were evacuations near Huffman and along Luce Bayou. On the 12th, several homes in the area were half submerged in flood waters. On the 12th, 6 inches of rain fell in the Clear Lake area where flooding was reported. 10 inches fell in and around the Baytown area, and serious flooding was reported. 4 to 5 inches fell in southwest Harris County from near Bellaire to Alief. Low areas around Brays and Keegan Bayou were flooded in Richmond and Sugarland. Heavy rains closed roads in Chambers County, especially in the Mont Belvieu area. Heavy rains also fell northward into southern Montgomery County where flood waters accumulated and flooded some homes and drove some people out near New Caney. One fatality (drowning) ocurred on the north side of Houston (Halls Bayou).
Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour. Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE. A tornado destroyed a mobile home near Broken Bow, NE, injuring both occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Fifteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville with a reading of 40 degrees. Drought conditions continued to intensify across the eastern half of the nation. Rainfall at Nashville, TN, was running 12.5 inches below normal. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Amarillo, TX, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Denton TX. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 - The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began. Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Global dust cloud cooled the planet, reversing for a time the global warming trend. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s.
On the same day that Mt Pinatubo awakened from its 635-year slumber, Typhoon Yunya crossed Luzon province. Mudslides and flooding caused many deaths and added with impacts of Pinatubo leaves more than a million homeless.
1993 - Severe thunderstorms ripped across central sections of South Dakota. The storms dropped marble to baseball sized hail. One storm developed a waterspout over the Missouri River which then traveled onto land as a tornado. The tornado went just south of Pierre crossing a baseball field and golf course before destroying a house and car. The owner of the house narrowly escaped injury as he hid in the fireplace during the storm. Several other tornadoes touched down around 15 miles south of Pierre.
1994 - A weak cold front and an extremely unstable airmass gave the area an incredible amount of severe weather in parts of Iowa. Dickinson County was hard hit when 60 to 80 mph winds struck throwing a sail boat into a tree along the Spirit Lake shoreline. Later, a small tornado touched down at Lake Park. The storms developed into an east to west orientation which began to give very heavy rain over the same areas. Reports from around Emmet, Dickinson and Clay Counties indicated rainfall amounts from 2 to as much as 6 inches within a two hour period. This resulted in flash flooding across those counties. Flash flooding was also reported in Lyon County where an incredible three inches of rain fell in a 30 minute period in the town of George. A tornado formed in Plymouth County and moved through the town of Le Mars, causing about $3 million dollars in damage. Approximately 120 buildings were damaged with 2 x 6 boards driven through neighboring houses. The tornado picked up a dog house with the dog still inside. The dog house was deposited a few blocks away, upside down, with the dog still inside. The dog was not injured. Hail destroyed 70,000 acres of cropland across South Dakota.
In Hand County, South Dakota, a thunderstorm caused an estimated $3 million dollars in crop damage. Hail, the largest being baseball size, was reported in drifts of three to four feet high. About 70 thousand acres of cropland and pastures were completely destroyed. Pheasants and ducks were killed by the hail and many cattle injured. Many windows were broken in homes, holes were punched in mobile homes, damaged occurred to contents of homes from hail which entered through windows, and many vehicles were extensively damaged.
A microburst created very high winds at Cheyenne, WY. A gust of 84 mph was recorded at the airport, with estimated gusts around 100 mph over the northeast part of Cheyenne. The high winds caused major damage to the roof at a local high school.
1996 - Extensive flash flooding in and around Mt. Pleasant, MI was the result of 1.82 inches of rainfall in 30 minutes with storm totals exceeding 2 inches. At one point parking lots had water 12 inches deep, several fields and ditches were flooded, and some motor homes and campers were set afloat
2000 - On this date through the 17th, two large wildfires developed in the Front Range Foothills in Colorado as careless campers and tinder dry conditions proved to be a dangerous combination. Strong winds gusting in excess of 60 mph on the 13th fanned the flames spreading both wildfires out of control. Winds gusted to 78 mph atop Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide west of Boulder. The Hi Meadows Wildfire, about 35 miles southwest of Denver consumed nearly 11,000 acres and 80 structures, mostly high priced homes. The Bobcat wildfire, located about 12 miles southwest of Fort Collins consumed nearly 11,000 acres and 22 structures. Late on the 16th, a strong cold front moved south over the Great Plains into northeastern Colorado. Low level upslope conditions developed in the wake of a front producing 2 to 4 inches of snowfall overnight at elevations above 8,000 feet. Firefighters were able to cvontain both fires shortly thereafter.
2002 - A supercell thunderstorm dumped copious amount of large hail across Buffalo and Kearney Counties in Nebraska. Hail up to 5 inches in diameter fell, injuring 15 people, and doing $100 million in damages. In excess of 6,000 structures sustained damage. In some cases, hailstones penetrated shingles, sheeting, and interior ceiling drywall. One person reported an 8 inch diameter hole in their roof. Another person reported hailstones landing on the living room couch after falling through the roof.
Large hail pelted parts of Medicine Lodge, KS. The hail size ranged from nickel to softball. More than 20 windshields were broken and vehicles throughout town sustained severe damage.
2005 - A tornado in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged 22 homes and produced $3.6 million in damage (Associated Press).
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1878 - A strong storm dropped egg-sized hailstones on Lachute, Ontario Canada. The accumulation halted train traffic.
1881 - Severe thunderstorms spawned more than half a dozen tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley. Five of the tornadoes touched down near Saint Joseph MO. In south central Kansas a tornado nearly wiped out the town of Floral. Hail and high winds struck Iowa and southern Minnesota. In Minnesota, Blue Earth City reported five inches of rain in one hour. (David Ludlum)
1884 - Los Angeles, CA received its greatest June rainstorm ever with 0.87 inches ending on this date.
1885 - A tornado in Iowa blew part of a train off the tracks, injuring three passengers. Three coaches and a baggage car were lifted into the air and onto a field.
1899 - An F5 tornado struck New Richmond, WI. 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. A circus was playing in New Richmond, which meant an additional 1,000 people were in town for the performances. Over 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed as the tornado went straight through the center of town. Six families had four or more members killed. A 3,000-pound safe was blown a full block. High visibility limited the death toll.
1915 - An F4 tornado moved northeast from northwest of Waterville, IA crossing the Mississippi River two miles south of Ferryville, WI. The last damage ended near Soldiers Grove. A man and his daughter were killed in one of three homes that were obliterated southwest of Heytman, a small railroad station on the Mississippi River. 60 buildings and 8 homes were destroyed in Wisconsin. This tornado caused approximately $200,000 in damage. In addition to this tornado, an F2 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Clayton Counties in northeast Iowa from three miles south of West Union to two miles south of Postville. One farm was devastated, the house and barn leveled. Heavy machinery was thrown 300 yards. Clothing was carried two miles.
1918 - Victorville, CA recorded their highest temperature for June at 114°. This was also their second highest temperature ever (116° - 7/10/2002). This was followed be their warmest night on record with a low of 88°.
1942 - A tornado smashed a four block area in the southwest suburbs of Oklahoma City, OK. 35 people were killed, making it one of the ten deadliest ever in the state. The twister completely demolished 73 homes and damaged 31 others. The Oklahoma City area has been struck by tornadoes more than 90 times since 1890.
1947 - A heavy wet snow blanketed much of southern and central Wyoming, and gave many places their heaviest and latest snow of record. Totals included 18.4 inches at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne, and 4.5 inches at Casper. (11th-12th) (The Weather Channel)
1948 - The Columbia River Basin flood peaked on this date in the Northwest. The flood produced the highest water level in the basin since the flood there in 1894. The damage estimate for the 1948 flood was $101 million dollars and 75 lives were lost.
1949 - Las Vegas, NV recorded 0.01 inches of rain, setting a daily record. This was the only measurable rainfall to occur on this date since records began in 1937.
1956 - The upper Midwest was in the midst of a six-day stretch of 90 degree plus temperatures. The high of 97° at Chicago, IL and 95° at Rockford, IL set daily high temperature records.
1959 - Heavy thundershowers were accompanied by a small tornado at Celeron near Jamestown, NY which caused damage to a boat house and recreation park estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars range. A two inch fall of rain in 75 minutes was recorded in Colden, NY.
1968 - The first day of June saw Tropical Storm Abby form in the western Caribbean Sea. The storm moved northeast and crossed central Florida, briefly reaching hurricane status in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical storm then moved along the coast of Florida and into Georgia, then made a loop as a tropical depression through the Carolinas, moving south to the North Carolina/South Carolina coast. The depression turned northeast and moved along the coast of North Carolina then dissipated on the 12th southeast of the Delmarva. Locations that received record daily rainfalls included: Philadelphia, PA: 3.05 inches, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.: 2.23 inches, Dulles Airport at Sterling, VA: 1.88 inches, Wilmington, DE: 1.75 inches, Newark, NJ: 1.74 inches and Williamsport, PA: 1.30 inches.
1969 - A record late snow blanketed parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska. 5 inches accumulated at Great Falls, MT and just east of Broadus, MT, with 10 inches reported at Deerfield, SD. Traces of snow fell as far south as Kimball, NE. Other snowfall totals included: Leiter, MT: 5 inches, Burgess Junction, WY: 4 inches, Sheridan, WY: 3 inches, Pryor, MT: 1 inch, Red Lodge, MT: 0.5 inches and Miles City, MY: 0.1 inches.
The low at Billings, MT dropped to 32° on the 12th and 13th, tying records for June.
1975 - Sydney, Australia's second longest dry spell on record came to an end. The dry spell lasted 34 days which started on May 10th.
1978 - Lightning killed a 14 year old boy running home to avoid the rain at Lauderhill, FL. The lightning struck a pine tree near the boy and severely burned his legs and knocked his shoes off.
1983 - The state of Utah was beseiged by floods and mudslides. Streets in downtown Salt Lake City were sandbagged and turned into rivers of relief. The town of Thistle was completely inundated as a mudslide made a natural dam. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - Winds of 210 mph measured at a height of 1.84 miles on the mountain Zugspitze in southern Germany.
1987 - Severe Flooding developed across Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery Counties when 5 to 10 inches of rain fell across the area. The Highlands and Crosby areas in eastern Harris County were hardest hit as the area received up to nearly 12 inches of rain. The water rose into around 200 homes in the area. The water was reported to be knee deep along Main Street in downtown Highlands where several businesses were flooded. Almost 10 inches of rain fell in the San Jacinto drainage below Lake Houston (most of it on the afternoon of the 11th). The heavy rains extended northward above Lake Houston into and along Luce Bayou. There were evacuations near Huffman and along Luce Bayou. On the 12th, several homes in the area were half submerged in flood waters. On the 12th, 6 inches of rain fell in the Clear Lake area where flooding was reported. 10 inches fell in and around the Baytown area, and serious flooding was reported. 4 to 5 inches fell in southwest Harris County from near Bellaire to Alief. Low areas around Brays and Keegan Bayou were flooded in Richmond and Sugarland. Heavy rains closed roads in Chambers County, especially in the Mont Belvieu area. Heavy rains also fell northward into southern Montgomery County where flood waters accumulated and flooded some homes and drove some people out near New Caney. One fatality (drowning) ocurred on the north side of Houston (Halls Bayou).
Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour. Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE. A tornado destroyed a mobile home near Broken Bow, NE, injuring both occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Fifteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville with a reading of 40 degrees. Drought conditions continued to intensify across the eastern half of the nation. Rainfall at Nashville, TN, was running 12.5 inches below normal. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Amarillo, TX, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Denton TX. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 - The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began. Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Global dust cloud cooled the planet, reversing for a time the global warming trend. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s.
On the same day that Mt Pinatubo awakened from its 635-year slumber, Typhoon Yunya crossed Luzon province. Mudslides and flooding caused many deaths and added with impacts of Pinatubo leaves more than a million homeless.
1993 - Severe thunderstorms ripped across central sections of South Dakota. The storms dropped marble to baseball sized hail. One storm developed a waterspout over the Missouri River which then traveled onto land as a tornado. The tornado went just south of Pierre crossing a baseball field and golf course before destroying a house and car. The owner of the house narrowly escaped injury as he hid in the fireplace during the storm. Several other tornadoes touched down around 15 miles south of Pierre.
1994 - A weak cold front and an extremely unstable airmass gave the area an incredible amount of severe weather in parts of Iowa. Dickinson County was hard hit when 60 to 80 mph winds struck throwing a sail boat into a tree along the Spirit Lake shoreline. Later, a small tornado touched down at Lake Park. The storms developed into an east to west orientation which began to give very heavy rain over the same areas. Reports from around Emmet, Dickinson and Clay Counties indicated rainfall amounts from 2 to as much as 6 inches within a two hour period. This resulted in flash flooding across those counties. Flash flooding was also reported in Lyon County where an incredible three inches of rain fell in a 30 minute period in the town of George. A tornado formed in Plymouth County and moved through the town of Le Mars, causing about $3 million dollars in damage. Approximately 120 buildings were damaged with 2 x 6 boards driven through neighboring houses. The tornado picked up a dog house with the dog still inside. The dog house was deposited a few blocks away, upside down, with the dog still inside. The dog was not injured. Hail destroyed 70,000 acres of cropland across South Dakota.
In Hand County, South Dakota, a thunderstorm caused an estimated $3 million dollars in crop damage. Hail, the largest being baseball size, was reported in drifts of three to four feet high. About 70 thousand acres of cropland and pastures were completely destroyed. Pheasants and ducks were killed by the hail and many cattle injured. Many windows were broken in homes, holes were punched in mobile homes, damaged occurred to contents of homes from hail which entered through windows, and many vehicles were extensively damaged.
A microburst created very high winds at Cheyenne, WY. A gust of 84 mph was recorded at the airport, with estimated gusts around 100 mph over the northeast part of Cheyenne. The high winds caused major damage to the roof at a local high school.
1996 - Extensive flash flooding in and around Mt. Pleasant, MI was the result of 1.82 inches of rainfall in 30 minutes with storm totals exceeding 2 inches. At one point parking lots had water 12 inches deep, several fields and ditches were flooded, and some motor homes and campers were set afloat
2000 - On this date through the 17th, two large wildfires developed in the Front Range Foothills in Colorado as careless campers and tinder dry conditions proved to be a dangerous combination. Strong winds gusting in excess of 60 mph on the 13th fanned the flames spreading both wildfires out of control. Winds gusted to 78 mph atop Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide west of Boulder. The Hi Meadows Wildfire, about 35 miles southwest of Denver consumed nearly 11,000 acres and 80 structures, mostly high priced homes. The Bobcat wildfire, located about 12 miles southwest of Fort Collins consumed nearly 11,000 acres and 22 structures. Late on the 16th, a strong cold front moved south over the Great Plains into northeastern Colorado. Low level upslope conditions developed in the wake of a front producing 2 to 4 inches of snowfall overnight at elevations above 8,000 feet. Firefighters were able to cvontain both fires shortly thereafter.
2002 - A supercell thunderstorm dumped copious amount of large hail across Buffalo and Kearney Counties in Nebraska. Hail up to 5 inches in diameter fell, injuring 15 people, and doing $100 million in damages. In excess of 6,000 structures sustained damage. In some cases, hailstones penetrated shingles, sheeting, and interior ceiling drywall. One person reported an 8 inch diameter hole in their roof. Another person reported hailstones landing on the living room couch after falling through the roof.
Large hail pelted parts of Medicine Lodge, KS. The hail size ranged from nickel to softball. More than 20 windshields were broken and vehicles throughout town sustained severe damage.
2005 - A tornado in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged 22 homes and produced $3.6 million in damage (Associated Press).
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For June 15th
1662 - A fast was held at Salem MA with prayers for rain, and the Lord gave a speedy answer. (David Ludlum)
1879 - McKinney ND received 7.7 inches of rain in 24 hours, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1896 - The temperature at Fort Mojave, CA, soared to 127 degrees, the hottest reading of record for June for the U.S. The low that day was 97 degrees. Morning lows of 100 degrees were reported on the 12th, 14th and 16th of the month. (The Weather Channel)
1938 - The rains produced peak discharges in Lake Creek Basin in Donley County, where flooding greater than any known before occurred. Maximum recorded rainfall was 14 in. 9:00 to 11:30 p.m. June 15.
1940 - A high temperature of 116° at Las Vegas, NV set their all-time hottest June reading.
1953 - Dust devils are usually rather benign weather phenomena, however, two boys were injured by one near Prescott AZ. One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other boy had two vertabrae fractured by wind-blown debris. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - East Saint Louis was deluged with 16.54 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state of Illinois. (The Weather Channel)
1959 - Mt. Mansfield, near Stowe, VT, received four inches of snow.
1960 - A heat burst struck Kopperl, TX, located about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth from a dying thunderstorm. As the air sank, it warmed to around 140°. When the heat burst struck the ground, winds fanned out at over 75 mph. People had to wrap themselves in wet blankets to protect themselves from the heat. Crops were burned to a crisp.
1963 - Heavy rain and hail raved parts of the northern Colorado Rockies. In southeast Denver, heavy rain flooded homes and streets. Hail to a depth of 4 inches on the ground stripped trees and drifted in to depths of 3 to 4 feet in places. Flood waters were as deep as 19 feet in places trapping many cars. Many creeks ran over their banks. A cell passed over Denver dropping 4 inches of rain in just 90 minutes. Damage totaled near a million dollars.
1967 - Scottsbluff, NE recorded the last of 11 consecutive days with measurable precipitation, their longest streak on record.
1968 - Severe thunderstorms brought heavy rain and high winds to much of the western two-thirds of Oklahoma. Winds gusting more than 70 mph dislodged a home from its foundation in Lawton, while winds stronger than 100 mph did extensive damage in Chickasha. The exact wind speed in Chickasha was not determined; because the wind gauge could only measure winds up to 100 mph. Torrential rain amounted to 7 inches in just a few hours near Loyal.
1976 - Ahead of a cold front, thunderstorms form south of I-10 in Houston. The majority of rain fell on a small area. Hunting Bayou at Loop 610 recorded 10.2 in. during 6 hours. The highest total is 15 inches of rain and leads to flooding of hospital basements in the Texas Medical Center. It also led to cancellation of a Houston Astros game at the Astrodome.
1977 - Heavy rains fell for two consecutive days across east central South Dakota through the 16th. Thunderstorms would develop and then move across the same areas repeatedly in what is called a train echo pattern. Rain amounts in the area included 6.9 inches at Watertown, 6.5 inches at Volga, and 7.5 inches at Bruce.
1978 - This was a rough day across portions of western and central South Dakota. A tornado touched down in Lemmon then skipped through town causing considerable damage. Numerous severe storms tore through central South Dakota with hail as large as baseballs and winds to 80 miles an hour causing $20 to $25 million dollars in damage across 15 counties. Several counties were declared disaster areas by the Governor of South Dakota.
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S. A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon ID. It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air, and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa ID. (The National Weather Channel) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in the Central High Plains Region spawned five tornadoes around Denver, CO, in just one hour. A strong (F-3) tornado in southern Denver injured seven persons and caused ten million dollars damage. Twenty-six cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 97 degrees at Portland ME was a record for June. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States. The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, including strong (F-3) tornadoes which injured three persons at Mountville PA and four persons at Columbia, PA. There were 111 reports of large hail and damaging winds, including wind gusts to 80 mph at Norfolk, VA, and Hogback Mountain, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
A late-season frost occurred over parts of the Midwest. Scattered areas of frost caused considerable damage to the corn crop in low-lying areas across northern Iowa. Damage was estimated to be around $2 million dollars. The hardest hit counties were in Winnebago, Kosuth and Hancock Counties.
1991 - The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began as Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. 343 people were killed in the Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,000 were left homeless. Material from the eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures cooled by as much as one degree Fahrenheit. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s.
On the same day Mt. Pinatubo awoken from its 635-year slumber, Typhoon Yunya crossed the Luzon province in the Philippines. Mudslides and flooding caused many deaths and added with impacts of Pinatubo left more than a million homeless.
1992 - The second largest two-day tornado outbreak in U.S. history commenced as a developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. Between 4:15 and 8:35 pm CDT, this supercell produced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas including 12 in Mitchell County and 9 in Osborne County. Some of the storms reached an amazing 78,000 feet into the atmosphere. A farmer living south of Cawker City reported going to the basement in his farm home five different times and each time he came out of the basement, his farm had additional damage. He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground and 4 funnels in the air. Damage to property in Mitchell County exceeded $12 million. Overall, 58 tornadoes struck the Great Plains during this outbreak.
1997 - A tornado touched down at the Colorado National Speedway near Dacano north of Denver, CO. The twister ripped through the south grandstand causing damage to a shed, kiosk, bleachers and several concession stands.
2010 - Sulaibiya, Kuwait soared to a record high of 127.6°.
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1662 - A fast was held at Salem MA with prayers for rain, and the Lord gave a speedy answer. (David Ludlum)
1879 - McKinney ND received 7.7 inches of rain in 24 hours, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1896 - The temperature at Fort Mojave, CA, soared to 127 degrees, the hottest reading of record for June for the U.S. The low that day was 97 degrees. Morning lows of 100 degrees were reported on the 12th, 14th and 16th of the month. (The Weather Channel)
1938 - The rains produced peak discharges in Lake Creek Basin in Donley County, where flooding greater than any known before occurred. Maximum recorded rainfall was 14 in. 9:00 to 11:30 p.m. June 15.
1940 - A high temperature of 116° at Las Vegas, NV set their all-time hottest June reading.
1953 - Dust devils are usually rather benign weather phenomena, however, two boys were injured by one near Prescott AZ. One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other boy had two vertabrae fractured by wind-blown debris. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - East Saint Louis was deluged with 16.54 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state of Illinois. (The Weather Channel)
1959 - Mt. Mansfield, near Stowe, VT, received four inches of snow.
1960 - A heat burst struck Kopperl, TX, located about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth from a dying thunderstorm. As the air sank, it warmed to around 140°. When the heat burst struck the ground, winds fanned out at over 75 mph. People had to wrap themselves in wet blankets to protect themselves from the heat. Crops were burned to a crisp.
1963 - Heavy rain and hail raved parts of the northern Colorado Rockies. In southeast Denver, heavy rain flooded homes and streets. Hail to a depth of 4 inches on the ground stripped trees and drifted in to depths of 3 to 4 feet in places. Flood waters were as deep as 19 feet in places trapping many cars. Many creeks ran over their banks. A cell passed over Denver dropping 4 inches of rain in just 90 minutes. Damage totaled near a million dollars.
1967 - Scottsbluff, NE recorded the last of 11 consecutive days with measurable precipitation, their longest streak on record.
1968 - Severe thunderstorms brought heavy rain and high winds to much of the western two-thirds of Oklahoma. Winds gusting more than 70 mph dislodged a home from its foundation in Lawton, while winds stronger than 100 mph did extensive damage in Chickasha. The exact wind speed in Chickasha was not determined; because the wind gauge could only measure winds up to 100 mph. Torrential rain amounted to 7 inches in just a few hours near Loyal.
1976 - Ahead of a cold front, thunderstorms form south of I-10 in Houston. The majority of rain fell on a small area. Hunting Bayou at Loop 610 recorded 10.2 in. during 6 hours. The highest total is 15 inches of rain and leads to flooding of hospital basements in the Texas Medical Center. It also led to cancellation of a Houston Astros game at the Astrodome.
1977 - Heavy rains fell for two consecutive days across east central South Dakota through the 16th. Thunderstorms would develop and then move across the same areas repeatedly in what is called a train echo pattern. Rain amounts in the area included 6.9 inches at Watertown, 6.5 inches at Volga, and 7.5 inches at Bruce.
1978 - This was a rough day across portions of western and central South Dakota. A tornado touched down in Lemmon then skipped through town causing considerable damage. Numerous severe storms tore through central South Dakota with hail as large as baseballs and winds to 80 miles an hour causing $20 to $25 million dollars in damage across 15 counties. Several counties were declared disaster areas by the Governor of South Dakota.
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S. A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon ID. It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air, and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa ID. (The National Weather Channel) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in the Central High Plains Region spawned five tornadoes around Denver, CO, in just one hour. A strong (F-3) tornado in southern Denver injured seven persons and caused ten million dollars damage. Twenty-six cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 97 degrees at Portland ME was a record for June. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States. The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, including strong (F-3) tornadoes which injured three persons at Mountville PA and four persons at Columbia, PA. There were 111 reports of large hail and damaging winds, including wind gusts to 80 mph at Norfolk, VA, and Hogback Mountain, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
A late-season frost occurred over parts of the Midwest. Scattered areas of frost caused considerable damage to the corn crop in low-lying areas across northern Iowa. Damage was estimated to be around $2 million dollars. The hardest hit counties were in Winnebago, Kosuth and Hancock Counties.
1991 - The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began as Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. 343 people were killed in the Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,000 were left homeless. Material from the eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures cooled by as much as one degree Fahrenheit. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s.
On the same day Mt. Pinatubo awoken from its 635-year slumber, Typhoon Yunya crossed the Luzon province in the Philippines. Mudslides and flooding caused many deaths and added with impacts of Pinatubo left more than a million homeless.
1992 - The second largest two-day tornado outbreak in U.S. history commenced as a developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. Between 4:15 and 8:35 pm CDT, this supercell produced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas including 12 in Mitchell County and 9 in Osborne County. Some of the storms reached an amazing 78,000 feet into the atmosphere. A farmer living south of Cawker City reported going to the basement in his farm home five different times and each time he came out of the basement, his farm had additional damage. He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground and 4 funnels in the air. Damage to property in Mitchell County exceeded $12 million. Overall, 58 tornadoes struck the Great Plains during this outbreak.
1997 - A tornado touched down at the Colorado National Speedway near Dacano north of Denver, CO. The twister ripped through the south grandstand causing damage to a shed, kiosk, bleachers and several concession stands.
2010 - Sulaibiya, Kuwait soared to a record high of 127.6°.
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For June 17th
1775 - The Battle for Breed's Hill near Bunker Hill took place. The diary of Edward Holyoke reported the weather as "serene, dry air, hot - 80° - W and WSW winds."
1859 - Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1882 - A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The tornado touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, killing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage. Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1946 - The third deadliest tornado in Canadian history struck southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Tecumseh. 17 people were killed and hundreds injured. Damage was conservatively estimated at $1.5 million dollars.
1959 - A tropical depression spawned several tornadoes, the most severe in Miami, FL since 1925. A tornado moved northeast through Miami, across Biscayne Bay and then out to sea. 77 people were injured, mostly from flying glass. Heavy rain caused crop damage in southwest Florida and tides were 2 to 3 feet above normal from St. Petersburg to Naples. On this date through the 21st, heavy rains over the southern peninsula caused considerable flooding in poorly drained and low lying agricultural areas and some residential sections. Considerable pasture land and some citrus land, particularly in the Indian River section, were inundated. Some highways also sustained flood damage. High tides along the west coast from Tampa south damaged boat docks and caused beach erosion. 5-day rain totals were mostly 7 to 12 inches with some scattered amounts 15 inches or more reported. This Depression went on to become a hurricane and killed 33 lobster fishermen in the Canadian Maritimes.
1960 - Heavy rains just west of Binghamton, NY produced 3 inches in less than 30 minutes. Flash flooding was reported in Johnson City, Vestal, and the northern sides of Endicott, NY.
1965 - Holly, CO, was deluged with 11.08 inches of rain to establish a state 24 hour rainfall record. (The Weather Channel)
1967 - This was the 24th consecutive day of at least a trace of precipitation at Denver, CO. Precipitation totaled 5.87 inches during that period; more than a third of their total annual rainfall.
1968 - On this date through the 18th, Tropical Depression Brenda crossed Key West, FL and moved through central Florida exiting into the Atlantic near Jacksonville. This storm gained hurricane strength north of Bermuda.
1971 - Hurricane Bridget passed just 30 miles off of Acapulco, MX. The storm was the worst in 25 years as winds gusted to 100 mph. The flagship of the Admiral of the Mexican Navy went down during the storm.
1978 - An F2 tornado hit the showboat "Whippoorwill" on Pomona Lake in Osage County, Kansas as it left the dock for a dinner cruise. 16 of the 58 passengers drowned as the boat capsized, making the twister the deadliest tornado of the year.
1982 - On this date through the 18th, a subtropical storm moved from the southeast Gulf of Mexico, northeast across the central Florida Peninsula into the Atlantic causing at least 12 tornadoes, high winds, extensive beach erosion along the west coast, and heavy rain that flooded rivers and urban areas. From Tampa Bay to Naples some waterfront building suffered damage from undermining and damage to marinas and small boats was widespread. Heavy rains caused flooding of six rivers and creeks in west central Florida. On the Manatee River, 20 families were evacuated. The Peace River crested a week after the storm causing the evacuation of 130 families. A one and a half year old boy drowned in a flooded drainage ditch, and a Brevard County woman drowned when her canoe turned over, her four year old son was rescued after clinging to the canoe for six hours. 12 tornadoes were reported between the morning of the 17th and the morning of the 18th from Dade and Broward Counties to Polk and Volusia counties. On the evening of the 17th, a tornado destroyed five trailers and two cars in northwest Hendry County, killing a man in a trailer and seriously injuring his wife. In Glades County, five more trailers, a cabin, and a camper were destroyed by the same tornado injuring three people. Another tornado moved through the Lake Josephine area in Highlands County destroying 23 homes and mobile homes and damaging many more, injuring nine people. The 10 other tornadoes caused much property damage, but no deaths or serious injuries.
1985 - The highest wind occurrence at Columbia, MO was recorded at 95 mph. This wind occurred on the same day that a tornado struck the Columbia Regional Airport causing damage to 22 planes.
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City. The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio, TX, reached a record level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days. Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably cool air, responsible for 37 record lows in the central U.S. on the 15th and 16th, including a low of 33 degrees at Valentine NE on the 15th, overspread the eastern U.S. ending a three day seige of severe weather. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front in northwestern Iowa. Severe weather with this line of storms was mostly due to strong straight-line winds. Reports of trees and outbuildings being downed were very extensive. Just southeast of Salix, six-inch diameter tree limbs were thrown through the side of a trailer, and 2x4s from one building were buried two to three feet into the ground. Extensive damage was also reported from Climbing Hill to Correctionville. Microburst winds of 105 mph were recorded at the Spencer Airport.
1991 - Record cold occurred over the Pacific Northwest. New record low temperature marks were established at Burns, OR with 31° and Yakima, WA with 36°.
1992 - Four consecutive days of severe thunderstorms and heavy rains from the 15th through the 18th resulted in flooding across northeast and east central South Dakota. Heavy rains of 5 to 20 inches caused extensive flooding, washing out numerous roads, bridges, and culverts and drowning livestock. Many crops in northeast and east central South Dakota were either flooded out by the heavy rains or severely damaged by hailstorms. The Big Sioux River swelled to almost three miles wide in places. Many houses and farm buildings were left as islands after being completely surrounded by water. Exhausted farmers battled the flood waters to save their livestock, with many animals dying. The main flooding along the Big Sioux River extended from the Watertown area to near Dell Rapids and lasted for a week.
Springfield, IL saw a high temperature of 89° on this date. This in itself isn't unusual for June. However, this ended up being the warmest temperature recorded in June 1992. Since weather records began in Springfield in 1879, only eight Junes have failed to record a temperature of 90° or higher.
1994 - 12 days of temperatures in the 90s and heat indices over 100° produced numerous reports of heat related illnesses and minor damage to crops. At St. Louis, MO four deaths and 33 heat related illnesses were reported from this date through the 23rd. In the county of St. Louis, 10 heat related illnesses were reported.
1997 - A large supercell developed over northwest Harris County between Katy and Cypress around 11 AM and tracked ESE at 35 mph across the county. The storm produced a large swath of straight line wind damage as it crossed through the northwest suburbs...the heart of downtown Houston...the ship channel...and the Bay area communities. There was widespread damage to windows, billboards and powerlines along the storm's path. Damage reports included thousands of trees blown down throughout the Houston area (some on cars and houses), a small wall collapse at the Astrodome, signs blown down areawide, and trees and fences blown down. The highest estimated wind was 65 mph. Up to 192,000 customers were without power in the wake of the storm. Eight injuries were caused by flying broken glass in the downtown area. Total damage was estimated around $635,000.
What a difference a few miles and an ocean makes. The morning low at the Atlantic City Airport, NJ was 47°, cool enough to set a record. A short distance away, at the state marina, the temperature was a milder 61°.
1998 - A freak snowstorm dropped up to 8 inches of snow over the Snowy Mountain Range in Wyoming. The snow stranded travelers on the Snowy range pass and required plows to assist them in getting out.
2001 - Tropical Storm Allison formed off the coast of Texas and moved inland on the 6th. The storm remained well organized and brought torrential rain and flooding from Texas, through the southern states and into the Mid-Atlantic region on its 10 day journey to the Atlantic Ocean. Allison regained tropical storm strength again east of Atlantic City, NJ. Rainfall amounts of more than 10 inches were measured in the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, PA.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in the town of Newry, ME. The main damage was to about 200 trees. The interesting thing about the F1 tornado was that it struck the same piece of property that had been struck by a tornado less than one year earlier.
2004 - A 100 year-old bank building in Toyah, TX was destroyed when strong winds affected the community. Radar reflectivity data depicted strong to severe thunderstorms well to the west of Toyah in adjacent Culberson County, however, only light reflectivity returns were indicated in the Toyah area and appeared to be associated with anvil blow-off down wind of the severe storms. The Reeves County Emergency Manager reported winds around 50 mph when the building was destroyed. These winds were likely associated with outflow from the distant storms. The structural integrity of the historic building may have been compromised by the extensive flooding event which affected the community in early April.
2009 - Torrential rains drenched Abercrombie, ND with 7.5 inches of rain, shattering the previous daily maximum rainfall record of 2 inches set in 1959 and exceeding the previous all-time rainfall record of 4.9 inches set on 6/30/1958.
A tornado leveled a house, knocked down power poles and overturned about a dozen railroad cars at Aurora, NE. The tornado was rated EF2, with winds between 111 and 135 mph.
Soaking rains across the middle south of Chile in South America left 24-hour rainfall totals of 3.15 inches at Valdivia, 2.22 inches at Osorno and 1.61 inches at Concepcion.
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1775 - The Battle for Breed's Hill near Bunker Hill took place. The diary of Edward Holyoke reported the weather as "serene, dry air, hot - 80° - W and WSW winds."
1859 - Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1882 - A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The tornado touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, killing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage. Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1946 - The third deadliest tornado in Canadian history struck southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Tecumseh. 17 people were killed and hundreds injured. Damage was conservatively estimated at $1.5 million dollars.
1959 - A tropical depression spawned several tornadoes, the most severe in Miami, FL since 1925. A tornado moved northeast through Miami, across Biscayne Bay and then out to sea. 77 people were injured, mostly from flying glass. Heavy rain caused crop damage in southwest Florida and tides were 2 to 3 feet above normal from St. Petersburg to Naples. On this date through the 21st, heavy rains over the southern peninsula caused considerable flooding in poorly drained and low lying agricultural areas and some residential sections. Considerable pasture land and some citrus land, particularly in the Indian River section, were inundated. Some highways also sustained flood damage. High tides along the west coast from Tampa south damaged boat docks and caused beach erosion. 5-day rain totals were mostly 7 to 12 inches with some scattered amounts 15 inches or more reported. This Depression went on to become a hurricane and killed 33 lobster fishermen in the Canadian Maritimes.
1960 - Heavy rains just west of Binghamton, NY produced 3 inches in less than 30 minutes. Flash flooding was reported in Johnson City, Vestal, and the northern sides of Endicott, NY.
1965 - Holly, CO, was deluged with 11.08 inches of rain to establish a state 24 hour rainfall record. (The Weather Channel)
1967 - This was the 24th consecutive day of at least a trace of precipitation at Denver, CO. Precipitation totaled 5.87 inches during that period; more than a third of their total annual rainfall.
1968 - On this date through the 18th, Tropical Depression Brenda crossed Key West, FL and moved through central Florida exiting into the Atlantic near Jacksonville. This storm gained hurricane strength north of Bermuda.
1971 - Hurricane Bridget passed just 30 miles off of Acapulco, MX. The storm was the worst in 25 years as winds gusted to 100 mph. The flagship of the Admiral of the Mexican Navy went down during the storm.
1978 - An F2 tornado hit the showboat "Whippoorwill" on Pomona Lake in Osage County, Kansas as it left the dock for a dinner cruise. 16 of the 58 passengers drowned as the boat capsized, making the twister the deadliest tornado of the year.
1982 - On this date through the 18th, a subtropical storm moved from the southeast Gulf of Mexico, northeast across the central Florida Peninsula into the Atlantic causing at least 12 tornadoes, high winds, extensive beach erosion along the west coast, and heavy rain that flooded rivers and urban areas. From Tampa Bay to Naples some waterfront building suffered damage from undermining and damage to marinas and small boats was widespread. Heavy rains caused flooding of six rivers and creeks in west central Florida. On the Manatee River, 20 families were evacuated. The Peace River crested a week after the storm causing the evacuation of 130 families. A one and a half year old boy drowned in a flooded drainage ditch, and a Brevard County woman drowned when her canoe turned over, her four year old son was rescued after clinging to the canoe for six hours. 12 tornadoes were reported between the morning of the 17th and the morning of the 18th from Dade and Broward Counties to Polk and Volusia counties. On the evening of the 17th, a tornado destroyed five trailers and two cars in northwest Hendry County, killing a man in a trailer and seriously injuring his wife. In Glades County, five more trailers, a cabin, and a camper were destroyed by the same tornado injuring three people. Another tornado moved through the Lake Josephine area in Highlands County destroying 23 homes and mobile homes and damaging many more, injuring nine people. The 10 other tornadoes caused much property damage, but no deaths or serious injuries.
1985 - The highest wind occurrence at Columbia, MO was recorded at 95 mph. This wind occurred on the same day that a tornado struck the Columbia Regional Airport causing damage to 22 planes.
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City. The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio, TX, reached a record level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days. Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably cool air, responsible for 37 record lows in the central U.S. on the 15th and 16th, including a low of 33 degrees at Valentine NE on the 15th, overspread the eastern U.S. ending a three day seige of severe weather. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front in northwestern Iowa. Severe weather with this line of storms was mostly due to strong straight-line winds. Reports of trees and outbuildings being downed were very extensive. Just southeast of Salix, six-inch diameter tree limbs were thrown through the side of a trailer, and 2x4s from one building were buried two to three feet into the ground. Extensive damage was also reported from Climbing Hill to Correctionville. Microburst winds of 105 mph were recorded at the Spencer Airport.
1991 - Record cold occurred over the Pacific Northwest. New record low temperature marks were established at Burns, OR with 31° and Yakima, WA with 36°.
1992 - Four consecutive days of severe thunderstorms and heavy rains from the 15th through the 18th resulted in flooding across northeast and east central South Dakota. Heavy rains of 5 to 20 inches caused extensive flooding, washing out numerous roads, bridges, and culverts and drowning livestock. Many crops in northeast and east central South Dakota were either flooded out by the heavy rains or severely damaged by hailstorms. The Big Sioux River swelled to almost three miles wide in places. Many houses and farm buildings were left as islands after being completely surrounded by water. Exhausted farmers battled the flood waters to save their livestock, with many animals dying. The main flooding along the Big Sioux River extended from the Watertown area to near Dell Rapids and lasted for a week.
Springfield, IL saw a high temperature of 89° on this date. This in itself isn't unusual for June. However, this ended up being the warmest temperature recorded in June 1992. Since weather records began in Springfield in 1879, only eight Junes have failed to record a temperature of 90° or higher.
1994 - 12 days of temperatures in the 90s and heat indices over 100° produced numerous reports of heat related illnesses and minor damage to crops. At St. Louis, MO four deaths and 33 heat related illnesses were reported from this date through the 23rd. In the county of St. Louis, 10 heat related illnesses were reported.
1997 - A large supercell developed over northwest Harris County between Katy and Cypress around 11 AM and tracked ESE at 35 mph across the county. The storm produced a large swath of straight line wind damage as it crossed through the northwest suburbs...the heart of downtown Houston...the ship channel...and the Bay area communities. There was widespread damage to windows, billboards and powerlines along the storm's path. Damage reports included thousands of trees blown down throughout the Houston area (some on cars and houses), a small wall collapse at the Astrodome, signs blown down areawide, and trees and fences blown down. The highest estimated wind was 65 mph. Up to 192,000 customers were without power in the wake of the storm. Eight injuries were caused by flying broken glass in the downtown area. Total damage was estimated around $635,000.
What a difference a few miles and an ocean makes. The morning low at the Atlantic City Airport, NJ was 47°, cool enough to set a record. A short distance away, at the state marina, the temperature was a milder 61°.
1998 - A freak snowstorm dropped up to 8 inches of snow over the Snowy Mountain Range in Wyoming. The snow stranded travelers on the Snowy range pass and required plows to assist them in getting out.
2001 - Tropical Storm Allison formed off the coast of Texas and moved inland on the 6th. The storm remained well organized and brought torrential rain and flooding from Texas, through the southern states and into the Mid-Atlantic region on its 10 day journey to the Atlantic Ocean. Allison regained tropical storm strength again east of Atlantic City, NJ. Rainfall amounts of more than 10 inches were measured in the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, PA.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in the town of Newry, ME. The main damage was to about 200 trees. The interesting thing about the F1 tornado was that it struck the same piece of property that had been struck by a tornado less than one year earlier.
2004 - A 100 year-old bank building in Toyah, TX was destroyed when strong winds affected the community. Radar reflectivity data depicted strong to severe thunderstorms well to the west of Toyah in adjacent Culberson County, however, only light reflectivity returns were indicated in the Toyah area and appeared to be associated with anvil blow-off down wind of the severe storms. The Reeves County Emergency Manager reported winds around 50 mph when the building was destroyed. These winds were likely associated with outflow from the distant storms. The structural integrity of the historic building may have been compromised by the extensive flooding event which affected the community in early April.
2009 - Torrential rains drenched Abercrombie, ND with 7.5 inches of rain, shattering the previous daily maximum rainfall record of 2 inches set in 1959 and exceeding the previous all-time rainfall record of 4.9 inches set on 6/30/1958.
A tornado leveled a house, knocked down power poles and overturned about a dozen railroad cars at Aurora, NE. The tornado was rated EF2, with winds between 111 and 135 mph.
Soaking rains across the middle south of Chile in South America left 24-hour rainfall totals of 3.15 inches at Valdivia, 2.22 inches at Osorno and 1.61 inches at Concepcion.
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For June 18th
1835 - A tornado moved southeast across west central Illinois, touching down midway between Canton and Fairview. Farms were destroyed before the tornado moved across Canton, where 50 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The tornado killed 8 people, including the founder of Canton and his son.
1875 - A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Eastport ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph. (David Ludlum)
1940 - Buffalo Bayou out of its banks. 3.02" of rain fell in 1.7 hours at the Houston City Office.
1954 - Just before sundown a heavy squall line 4 to 5 miles offshore and paralleling the Florida Keys for 15 to 18 miles, developed 11 funnel clouds. At least five reached the water.
1958 - Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County MT. (The Weather Channel)
1961 - Flash flooding in Austin during the night June 17-18 resulted from intense rainfall. The greatest recorded rainfall was 6.86 in. About 300 people were evacuated from their homes in southeast Austin when Boggy Creek overflowed its banks.
1964 - A tornado moved from south-southwest to north-northeast damaging three farmsteads between Hoven to 8 miles north-northwest of Bowdle in South Dakota. This tornado was estimate to have F2 strength. An estimated five inches of rain fell in three hours near Bowdle causing soil erosion just before the tornado hit. Another storm moved from south to north and intensified as it moved northward. Winds were estimated between 50 and 100 mph. The greatest damage was in McPherson County where it was estimated 2 million dollars in crop damage occurred. Heavy rain was also observed on this day. Some storm total rain fall includes; 6.73 inches in Eureka, 4.28 in Roscoe, 3.75 in Leola, 2.68 in Shelby, 2.45 in Britton, and 2.31 inches in Ipswich.
1970 - Wind and rain, and hail up to seven inches deep, caused more than five million dollars damage at Oberlin KS. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved northward through the Gulf of Mexico at 10 to 15 mph about 200 miles off the west coast of Florida. It was well west of Ft. Myers at 2000 on the 18th and passed west of Tampa near 0600z on the 19th and made landfall in the Panhandle near Cape San Blas in the afternoon. Gale force winds were felt throughout the state, but no hurricane force winds were reported. Agnes spawned the worst tropical cyclone severe weather outbreak in Florida history on this date and the 19th when the outer rainbands produced tornadoes and severe thunderstorms over the peninsula. Almost two dozen tornadoes and windstorms were reported from the Keys to Cape Canaveral. Six people were killed and 40 injured in Okeechobee when a series of windstorms, that may have been tornadoes, destroyed mobile homes at 2255z on the 18th. The highest tides in many years along the west coast destroyed homes and businesses, washed away roads and cut off access to many offshore islands. There was severe beach erosion. Damage estimates total $5 million dollars to public property and $36 million dollars to private property. One person drowned on the west coast and another death was attributed to a storm-related fatal heart attack.
1973 - The latest significant snow (2 inches or more) on record for the Black Hills in South Dakota occurred on this date when portion of the Hills received up to 8 inches.
1987 - It was a hot day in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Nine cities in Michigan and Wisconsin reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 90 degrees at Marquette, MI, marked their third straight day of record heat. Severe thunderstorm in the Northern and Central High Plains Region spawned half a dozen tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado. Wheatridge, CO, was deluged with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota produced hail three inches in diameter and spawned four tornadoes in Steele County. Thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Clearbrook MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southwestern U.S. In Arizona, afternoon highs of 103 degrees at Winslow, 113 degrees at Tucson, and 115 degrees at Phoenix were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A cold front, accompanied by severe thunderstorms, moved quickly across western and central New York during the morning hours. The thunderstorms downed trees and power lines causing numerous power outages. Near zero visibilities from heavy rain and downed power lines also caused traffic problems during the morning rush hour. Several reports of homes damaged by falling trees were received. A state of emergency was declared in Brownville as downed trees and power lines blocked the main streets. Two people were trapped in their cars when live wires fell onto the street. Two trailers were overturned in Antwerp. A waterspout was sighted in Henderson Harbor. The water rose 10 feet near the waterspout, reported to be 150 feet high, 30 feet in diameter, and lasting six minutes.
1991 - Atlanta, GA recorded a new record for the amount of rainfall in one hour as 3.47 inches fell between 6:52 pm and 7:52 pm EDT.
1992 - Indianapolis, IN was belted with a vicious severe thunderstorm during the early morning hours. It produced the entire cycle of severe weather types. A tornado was reported five miles to the northwest, hail 1.25 inches in diameter fell, winds gusted to 62 mph, continuous lightning was observed, and 2.05 inches rain fell for the storm with 1.19 inches falling in one hour. The airport control tower was evacuated during the height of the storm.
Severe thunderstorms brought very large hail to parts of central and north-central Oklahoma. Baseball-size hail fell near Yale, Kingfisher, Cashion, and El Reno. The hail damaged roofs, windows, and automobiles. The storms also produced four weak, short-lived tornadoes. This event marked the highlight of the biggest daily sustained late season severe weather outbreak across the U.S. on record. More than 800 reports of severe weather, including 172 tornadoes, poured into the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from the 15th to the 19th.
1993 - In west central Kansas, heavy rain caused roads in the Syracuse area to flood. As much as one foot of water covered some roads for a short period of time. In Greeley County, golf ball size hail, driven by thunderstorm winds, damaged wheat and broke windows along a four mile path from five miles south of Astor to nine miles south of Astor. Trees were also blown down.
1994 - A strong upper level heat ridge covering more than two-thirds of the country extended from the southwest to the northeast created numerous record highs for the date including: Detroit, MI: 99°, Madison, WI: 99°, Rockford, IL: 99°, Lansing, MI: 98°, Moline, IL: 98°, Fort Wayne, IN: 98°, South Bend, IN: 98°, Toledo, OH: 98°, Flint, MI: 97°, Houghton Lake, MI: 97°, Springfield, IL: 97°, Pittsburgh, PA: 97°, Williamsport, PA: 97°, Grand Rapids, MI: 96°, Mansfield, OH: 93°, Muskegon, MI: 91°, Indianapolis, IN: 96°, Buffalo, NY: 95° and Avoca, PA: 93°.
1995 - A strong heat ridge extending from the central U.S. to the east coast provided record high temperatures for the date including: International Falls, MN: 99°, Alpena, MI: 97°, Marquette, MI: 96°, Green Bay, WI: 96°, La Crosse, WI: 96°, Milwaukee, WI: 96° and Duluth, MN: 94°.
Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada soared to record high of 102°.
1997 - Over 6 inches of rain fell at Columbia, MS in a three hour period and 8.25 inches fell in a 24 hour period. Water entered thirty businesses in Columbia, with 12 of the businesses suffering major damage. Eight homes also suffered flood damage. Many roads were washed out and had to be closed. Numerous cars were under water. This event caused $15 million dollars in property damages. Several roads were also flooded across the south half of Forrest County.
A weak tornado touched down in northeast Cheyenne, WY. The tornado, which destroyed a storage shed, was unusual in that it rotated anti-cyclonically instead of the usual counter-clockwise direction.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms moved across a large portion of northern and central Illinois. Most of the damage occurred in the northeast part of the state, from near Rockford to the Chicago area. In Boone County, a 120-year-old barn was destroyed. Vehicles were blown off I-80 in Joliet, several schools in the Chicago area had damage, and numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A waterspout also formed on Lake Michigan.
Heavy rain of 3 to 4 inches fell during the late evening and early morning hours across part of eastern Faulk County in South Dakota. Several roads were flooded with some being closed. Officially, 2.94 inches of rain fell in Faulkton.
1999 - Record morning chill occurred across the Plains, Midwest and Appalachians. Record lows for the date included: Lansing, MI: 37°, Elkins, WV: 39°, Muskegon, MI: 41°, Flint, MI: 41°, Pittsburgh, PA: 43°, Bluefield, WV: 46°, Covington, KY: 49° and Jackson, KY: 52°.
2001 - An F3 tornado struck the small town of Siren, MN, killing three people and injuring 16 others. The twister damaged or destroyed nearly half of the town's homes and businesses. A tornado warning was issued 50 minutes before the storm struck, but the town's warning siren had been knocked out by a storm earlier in the year. The siren would have been rendered useless since the power went out anyway. An important lesson from the Siren storm: sirens should not be depended upon for receiving warnings: Purchase a Weather Radio.
2002 - Much of central Europe enjoyed a very hot day; temperatures in the Netherlands peaked close to 95° in Arcen, while over the border in Koblenz the high of 103°, a new record June high. Meanwhile, the day before Auxerre in France reached 99°.
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1835 - A tornado moved southeast across west central Illinois, touching down midway between Canton and Fairview. Farms were destroyed before the tornado moved across Canton, where 50 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The tornado killed 8 people, including the founder of Canton and his son.
1875 - A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Eastport ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph. (David Ludlum)
1940 - Buffalo Bayou out of its banks. 3.02" of rain fell in 1.7 hours at the Houston City Office.
1954 - Just before sundown a heavy squall line 4 to 5 miles offshore and paralleling the Florida Keys for 15 to 18 miles, developed 11 funnel clouds. At least five reached the water.
1958 - Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County MT. (The Weather Channel)
1961 - Flash flooding in Austin during the night June 17-18 resulted from intense rainfall. The greatest recorded rainfall was 6.86 in. About 300 people were evacuated from their homes in southeast Austin when Boggy Creek overflowed its banks.
1964 - A tornado moved from south-southwest to north-northeast damaging three farmsteads between Hoven to 8 miles north-northwest of Bowdle in South Dakota. This tornado was estimate to have F2 strength. An estimated five inches of rain fell in three hours near Bowdle causing soil erosion just before the tornado hit. Another storm moved from south to north and intensified as it moved northward. Winds were estimated between 50 and 100 mph. The greatest damage was in McPherson County where it was estimated 2 million dollars in crop damage occurred. Heavy rain was also observed on this day. Some storm total rain fall includes; 6.73 inches in Eureka, 4.28 in Roscoe, 3.75 in Leola, 2.68 in Shelby, 2.45 in Britton, and 2.31 inches in Ipswich.
1970 - Wind and rain, and hail up to seven inches deep, caused more than five million dollars damage at Oberlin KS. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved northward through the Gulf of Mexico at 10 to 15 mph about 200 miles off the west coast of Florida. It was well west of Ft. Myers at 2000 on the 18th and passed west of Tampa near 0600z on the 19th and made landfall in the Panhandle near Cape San Blas in the afternoon. Gale force winds were felt throughout the state, but no hurricane force winds were reported. Agnes spawned the worst tropical cyclone severe weather outbreak in Florida history on this date and the 19th when the outer rainbands produced tornadoes and severe thunderstorms over the peninsula. Almost two dozen tornadoes and windstorms were reported from the Keys to Cape Canaveral. Six people were killed and 40 injured in Okeechobee when a series of windstorms, that may have been tornadoes, destroyed mobile homes at 2255z on the 18th. The highest tides in many years along the west coast destroyed homes and businesses, washed away roads and cut off access to many offshore islands. There was severe beach erosion. Damage estimates total $5 million dollars to public property and $36 million dollars to private property. One person drowned on the west coast and another death was attributed to a storm-related fatal heart attack.
1973 - The latest significant snow (2 inches or more) on record for the Black Hills in South Dakota occurred on this date when portion of the Hills received up to 8 inches.
1987 - It was a hot day in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Nine cities in Michigan and Wisconsin reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 90 degrees at Marquette, MI, marked their third straight day of record heat. Severe thunderstorm in the Northern and Central High Plains Region spawned half a dozen tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado. Wheatridge, CO, was deluged with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota produced hail three inches in diameter and spawned four tornadoes in Steele County. Thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Clearbrook MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southwestern U.S. In Arizona, afternoon highs of 103 degrees at Winslow, 113 degrees at Tucson, and 115 degrees at Phoenix were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A cold front, accompanied by severe thunderstorms, moved quickly across western and central New York during the morning hours. The thunderstorms downed trees and power lines causing numerous power outages. Near zero visibilities from heavy rain and downed power lines also caused traffic problems during the morning rush hour. Several reports of homes damaged by falling trees were received. A state of emergency was declared in Brownville as downed trees and power lines blocked the main streets. Two people were trapped in their cars when live wires fell onto the street. Two trailers were overturned in Antwerp. A waterspout was sighted in Henderson Harbor. The water rose 10 feet near the waterspout, reported to be 150 feet high, 30 feet in diameter, and lasting six minutes.
1991 - Atlanta, GA recorded a new record for the amount of rainfall in one hour as 3.47 inches fell between 6:52 pm and 7:52 pm EDT.
1992 - Indianapolis, IN was belted with a vicious severe thunderstorm during the early morning hours. It produced the entire cycle of severe weather types. A tornado was reported five miles to the northwest, hail 1.25 inches in diameter fell, winds gusted to 62 mph, continuous lightning was observed, and 2.05 inches rain fell for the storm with 1.19 inches falling in one hour. The airport control tower was evacuated during the height of the storm.
Severe thunderstorms brought very large hail to parts of central and north-central Oklahoma. Baseball-size hail fell near Yale, Kingfisher, Cashion, and El Reno. The hail damaged roofs, windows, and automobiles. The storms also produced four weak, short-lived tornadoes. This event marked the highlight of the biggest daily sustained late season severe weather outbreak across the U.S. on record. More than 800 reports of severe weather, including 172 tornadoes, poured into the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from the 15th to the 19th.
1993 - In west central Kansas, heavy rain caused roads in the Syracuse area to flood. As much as one foot of water covered some roads for a short period of time. In Greeley County, golf ball size hail, driven by thunderstorm winds, damaged wheat and broke windows along a four mile path from five miles south of Astor to nine miles south of Astor. Trees were also blown down.
1994 - A strong upper level heat ridge covering more than two-thirds of the country extended from the southwest to the northeast created numerous record highs for the date including: Detroit, MI: 99°, Madison, WI: 99°, Rockford, IL: 99°, Lansing, MI: 98°, Moline, IL: 98°, Fort Wayne, IN: 98°, South Bend, IN: 98°, Toledo, OH: 98°, Flint, MI: 97°, Houghton Lake, MI: 97°, Springfield, IL: 97°, Pittsburgh, PA: 97°, Williamsport, PA: 97°, Grand Rapids, MI: 96°, Mansfield, OH: 93°, Muskegon, MI: 91°, Indianapolis, IN: 96°, Buffalo, NY: 95° and Avoca, PA: 93°.
1995 - A strong heat ridge extending from the central U.S. to the east coast provided record high temperatures for the date including: International Falls, MN: 99°, Alpena, MI: 97°, Marquette, MI: 96°, Green Bay, WI: 96°, La Crosse, WI: 96°, Milwaukee, WI: 96° and Duluth, MN: 94°.
Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada soared to record high of 102°.
1997 - Over 6 inches of rain fell at Columbia, MS in a three hour period and 8.25 inches fell in a 24 hour period. Water entered thirty businesses in Columbia, with 12 of the businesses suffering major damage. Eight homes also suffered flood damage. Many roads were washed out and had to be closed. Numerous cars were under water. This event caused $15 million dollars in property damages. Several roads were also flooded across the south half of Forrest County.
A weak tornado touched down in northeast Cheyenne, WY. The tornado, which destroyed a storage shed, was unusual in that it rotated anti-cyclonically instead of the usual counter-clockwise direction.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms moved across a large portion of northern and central Illinois. Most of the damage occurred in the northeast part of the state, from near Rockford to the Chicago area. In Boone County, a 120-year-old barn was destroyed. Vehicles were blown off I-80 in Joliet, several schools in the Chicago area had damage, and numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A waterspout also formed on Lake Michigan.
Heavy rain of 3 to 4 inches fell during the late evening and early morning hours across part of eastern Faulk County in South Dakota. Several roads were flooded with some being closed. Officially, 2.94 inches of rain fell in Faulkton.
1999 - Record morning chill occurred across the Plains, Midwest and Appalachians. Record lows for the date included: Lansing, MI: 37°, Elkins, WV: 39°, Muskegon, MI: 41°, Flint, MI: 41°, Pittsburgh, PA: 43°, Bluefield, WV: 46°, Covington, KY: 49° and Jackson, KY: 52°.
2001 - An F3 tornado struck the small town of Siren, MN, killing three people and injuring 16 others. The twister damaged or destroyed nearly half of the town's homes and businesses. A tornado warning was issued 50 minutes before the storm struck, but the town's warning siren had been knocked out by a storm earlier in the year. The siren would have been rendered useless since the power went out anyway. An important lesson from the Siren storm: sirens should not be depended upon for receiving warnings: Purchase a Weather Radio.
2002 - Much of central Europe enjoyed a very hot day; temperatures in the Netherlands peaked close to 95° in Arcen, while over the border in Koblenz the high of 103°, a new record June high. Meanwhile, the day before Auxerre in France reached 99°.
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You might be referring to Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873.Ed Mahmoud wrote:This early in the season and that far Northeast, severe coastal storm of 1875 may have started in the tropics but was almost certainly no longer tropical when it hit Canada. Even the September/October systems are transitioning by the time they hit Canada.
Just saying.
I d like reading these, not looking for an argument.
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For June 19th
1794 - A violent tornado commenced west of the Hudson River in New York. The tornado traveled through Poughkeepsie, then crossed the border into Connecticut where it traveled through the towns of New Milford, Waterbury, North Haven, and Branford. It then continued on into Long Island Sound. The tornado did extensive damage and the funnel was reported by one observer to look like the "aurora borealis".
1835 - A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick NJ killing five persons and scattering debris as far as Manhattan Island. The tornado provided the first opportunity for scientists to study firsthand the track of such a storm. (David Ludlum)
1921 - This large storm covered much of the State and caused flooding in areas around Weatherford, Victoria, and Longview. The maximum rainfall depths were about 14 in. near Austwell.
1934 - A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico came ashore in Louisiana, then moved northeast, passing over northern Delaware, Philadelphia, PA and central New Jersey as an extratropical storm, with sustained winds of 45 mph. Philadelphia received 1.70 inches of rainfall on the 18th into this date, and New York City had 1.93 inches on this date, a daily record. As the storm passed over Philadelphia, the pressure dropped to 29.40 inHg.
1938 - A cloudburst near Custer Creek, MT, (near Miles City) caused a train wreck killing forty-eight persons. An estimated four to seven inches of rain deluged the head of the creek that evening, and water flowing through the creek weakened the bridge. As a result, a locomotive and seven passenger cars plunged into the swollen creek. One car, a tourist sleeper, was completely submerged. (David Ludlum)
1939 - Rainfall of 4-19 in. fell during 4-10 hours on an area of about 1,000 mi2 near Snyder in Scurry County. The resulting flood on the Colorado River and its tributaries caused one death and damage was estimated at $350,000.
1964 - A squall line producing large hail swept through central Illinois, followed by two more consecutive lines passing shortly after dawn. The resulting hailstorms caused damage in excess of $9 million dollars, as hailstones the size of grapefruits brought havoc to trees, utility lines, crops and buildings. The thunderstorms also produced as much as 5 inches of rain over an 8-hour period.
1965 - The Arkansas River crested at 15.68 feet at Dodge City, KS. Heavy rains in Eastern Colorado combined with three broken dams started the torrent of water which flowed through Colorado and Kansas. The river rose seven feet in 15 minutes between 9am and 9:15am. The flood waters reached from the railroad tracks on the north side to just barely covering Beeson street on the south. The deepest part of south Dodge was about 7 feet under water. The deep water created other problems, when gas regulators were covered, pressure built up in the gas lines and Dodge City was rocked by explosions. Total urban losses in Dodge City and Wilroads Gardens were estimated at nearly $3.8 million dollars, including damages to 615 residences and 155 businesses. 24 Kansas counties were declared flood disasters.
1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas FL with wind gusts to 80 mph, and exited Maine on the 26th. There were 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from North Carolina to New York State, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars. Up to 19 inches of rain deluged western Schuylkill County PA. The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history. Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille). (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1975 - Severe weather tore across the eastern half of South Dakota through the 20th. Strong winds and numerous tornadoes affected the state on consecutive days. During the evening, winds estimated at 80 mph did damage in Mitchell and separate tornadoes touched down briefly in Dimock and in Delmont. The two tornadoes damaged trees, power lines, and older buildings in the two towns. On the 20th, winds gusting to 100 mph blasted through Winner damaging several trailers. Also for the second day in a row residents of Aberdeen had a close call with tornadoes. A tornado touched down 7 miles north and 5 miles west of town, but lifted from the ground before striking the town. The next day tornadoes touched down 3 miles northwest of Aberdeen and then again 2 miles south of town. Fortunately, the tornadoes did little damage.
1987 - It was a warm June day, with plenty of thunderstorms east of the Rockies. Lightning knocked out power at Throckmorton, TX, and ignited an oil tank battery. A woman in Knox City TX was struck by lightning while in her car, and a man was struck by lightning near his home in Manatee County FL. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned several outhouses near Bixby OK, but no injuries were reported. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the central U.S. for Father's Day. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced softball size hail near River Falls WI, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Menomonie WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date as searing heat spread from the southwestern deserts into the High Plains Region. Record highs included 98 degrees at Billings, MT, 107 degrees at Valentine, NE, and 112 degrees at Tucson, AZ. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A derecho blasted through south central Kansas. A wind gust to 116 mph was recorded at Kingman. High winds caused severe damage to hangars at Jabara airport at Wichita. Many grain bins were toppled. Several radio towers north of Wichita were also toppled which disrupted the dissemination of warnings to the public. Total damage was around $50 million dollars. The storm was termed "one of the most damaging of the century" for Wichita area.
Wichita, KS reported a record high of 105°.
1992 - Two batches of severe thunderstorms, occurring within six hours of each other, dumped hailstones up to 4.5 inches in diameter (softball size) across Sedgwick and surrounding counties in south central Kansas. Over 10,000 homes were damaged. The hail left wheat fields near total losses. The hail also left most wheat fields in its path a near total loss with about 375,000 acres damaged in several counties. Estimated property damage totaled $500 million dollars with crop damage at $100 million dollars. The thunderstorm episode ranks as one for the worst ever to hit the state of Kansas.
1993 - Flooding and Flash Flooding developed across most of Southeast Texas from the remnants of Tropical Storm Arlene. Arlene made landfall 45 miles south of Corpus Christi early on the 20th. The effects of the storm began on the 19th and continued into the 22nd. Storm totals ranged from 6 to 12 inches with isolated totals near inches. Many FM and County roads were periodically closed and reopened through the period due to the flooding as a result of the heavy rains and swollen rivers and streams.
Heavy rains in the Upper Midwest started serious flooding on the Upper Mississippi and its tributaries as the Great Flood of 1993 was underway. The flooding would surpass all other American floods in terms of destruction and duration.
1994 - Lightning struck and killed two golfers, and injured another, at the Lincoln Golf Course in northeastern Oklahoma City. These golfers were seeking shelter from a thunderstorm under trees when they were struck by lightning.
1996 - Severe thunderstorm winds damaged a large hanger door and turned a Boeing 727 aircraft 180 degrees at Orlando International Airport in Florida. Lightning injured three landscape workers near the University of Central Florida.
2001 - A dust devil formed near Las Cruces, NM. The whirlwind became a landspout when it moved under a developing thunderstorm. It remained on the ground for 15 minutes, observed by thousands of people. The thunderstorm winds caused some light damage that was attributed to the landspout/dust devil.
2002 - Parts of New Jersey that had barely gotten three inches of snow during the winter were buried in up to 8 inches of hail. People had to break out their snow shovels for the first time of the year.
2004 - Annette Island, AK set their all-time record high temperature with 93°.
2006 - Up to 11 inches of rain fell in the Houston, Texas area, causing widespread flash flooding. The Houston Fire Department rescued more than 500 people from flood waters, but no serious injuries or fatalities were reported.
2008 - Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding and mudslides across parts of South Africa. Hardest hit was the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, where four people died. Scottburg, KwaZulu-Natal received 5 inches of rain in 24 hours.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=6&d=19
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_june
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... nd-tropics
http://floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/1925to1900.htm
http://floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/1950to1925.htm
Interesting to note that Texas was hit by massive flooding in June and September 1921. Both were caused by hurricanes that made landfall.
1794 - A violent tornado commenced west of the Hudson River in New York. The tornado traveled through Poughkeepsie, then crossed the border into Connecticut where it traveled through the towns of New Milford, Waterbury, North Haven, and Branford. It then continued on into Long Island Sound. The tornado did extensive damage and the funnel was reported by one observer to look like the "aurora borealis".
1835 - A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick NJ killing five persons and scattering debris as far as Manhattan Island. The tornado provided the first opportunity for scientists to study firsthand the track of such a storm. (David Ludlum)
1921 - This large storm covered much of the State and caused flooding in areas around Weatherford, Victoria, and Longview. The maximum rainfall depths were about 14 in. near Austwell.
1934 - A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico came ashore in Louisiana, then moved northeast, passing over northern Delaware, Philadelphia, PA and central New Jersey as an extratropical storm, with sustained winds of 45 mph. Philadelphia received 1.70 inches of rainfall on the 18th into this date, and New York City had 1.93 inches on this date, a daily record. As the storm passed over Philadelphia, the pressure dropped to 29.40 inHg.
1938 - A cloudburst near Custer Creek, MT, (near Miles City) caused a train wreck killing forty-eight persons. An estimated four to seven inches of rain deluged the head of the creek that evening, and water flowing through the creek weakened the bridge. As a result, a locomotive and seven passenger cars plunged into the swollen creek. One car, a tourist sleeper, was completely submerged. (David Ludlum)
1939 - Rainfall of 4-19 in. fell during 4-10 hours on an area of about 1,000 mi2 near Snyder in Scurry County. The resulting flood on the Colorado River and its tributaries caused one death and damage was estimated at $350,000.
1964 - A squall line producing large hail swept through central Illinois, followed by two more consecutive lines passing shortly after dawn. The resulting hailstorms caused damage in excess of $9 million dollars, as hailstones the size of grapefruits brought havoc to trees, utility lines, crops and buildings. The thunderstorms also produced as much as 5 inches of rain over an 8-hour period.
1965 - The Arkansas River crested at 15.68 feet at Dodge City, KS. Heavy rains in Eastern Colorado combined with three broken dams started the torrent of water which flowed through Colorado and Kansas. The river rose seven feet in 15 minutes between 9am and 9:15am. The flood waters reached from the railroad tracks on the north side to just barely covering Beeson street on the south. The deepest part of south Dodge was about 7 feet under water. The deep water created other problems, when gas regulators were covered, pressure built up in the gas lines and Dodge City was rocked by explosions. Total urban losses in Dodge City and Wilroads Gardens were estimated at nearly $3.8 million dollars, including damages to 615 residences and 155 businesses. 24 Kansas counties were declared flood disasters.
1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas FL with wind gusts to 80 mph, and exited Maine on the 26th. There were 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from North Carolina to New York State, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars. Up to 19 inches of rain deluged western Schuylkill County PA. The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history. Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille). (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1975 - Severe weather tore across the eastern half of South Dakota through the 20th. Strong winds and numerous tornadoes affected the state on consecutive days. During the evening, winds estimated at 80 mph did damage in Mitchell and separate tornadoes touched down briefly in Dimock and in Delmont. The two tornadoes damaged trees, power lines, and older buildings in the two towns. On the 20th, winds gusting to 100 mph blasted through Winner damaging several trailers. Also for the second day in a row residents of Aberdeen had a close call with tornadoes. A tornado touched down 7 miles north and 5 miles west of town, but lifted from the ground before striking the town. The next day tornadoes touched down 3 miles northwest of Aberdeen and then again 2 miles south of town. Fortunately, the tornadoes did little damage.
1987 - It was a warm June day, with plenty of thunderstorms east of the Rockies. Lightning knocked out power at Throckmorton, TX, and ignited an oil tank battery. A woman in Knox City TX was struck by lightning while in her car, and a man was struck by lightning near his home in Manatee County FL. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned several outhouses near Bixby OK, but no injuries were reported. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the central U.S. for Father's Day. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced softball size hail near River Falls WI, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Menomonie WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date as searing heat spread from the southwestern deserts into the High Plains Region. Record highs included 98 degrees at Billings, MT, 107 degrees at Valentine, NE, and 112 degrees at Tucson, AZ. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A derecho blasted through south central Kansas. A wind gust to 116 mph was recorded at Kingman. High winds caused severe damage to hangars at Jabara airport at Wichita. Many grain bins were toppled. Several radio towers north of Wichita were also toppled which disrupted the dissemination of warnings to the public. Total damage was around $50 million dollars. The storm was termed "one of the most damaging of the century" for Wichita area.
Wichita, KS reported a record high of 105°.
1992 - Two batches of severe thunderstorms, occurring within six hours of each other, dumped hailstones up to 4.5 inches in diameter (softball size) across Sedgwick and surrounding counties in south central Kansas. Over 10,000 homes were damaged. The hail left wheat fields near total losses. The hail also left most wheat fields in its path a near total loss with about 375,000 acres damaged in several counties. Estimated property damage totaled $500 million dollars with crop damage at $100 million dollars. The thunderstorm episode ranks as one for the worst ever to hit the state of Kansas.
1993 - Flooding and Flash Flooding developed across most of Southeast Texas from the remnants of Tropical Storm Arlene. Arlene made landfall 45 miles south of Corpus Christi early on the 20th. The effects of the storm began on the 19th and continued into the 22nd. Storm totals ranged from 6 to 12 inches with isolated totals near inches. Many FM and County roads were periodically closed and reopened through the period due to the flooding as a result of the heavy rains and swollen rivers and streams.
Heavy rains in the Upper Midwest started serious flooding on the Upper Mississippi and its tributaries as the Great Flood of 1993 was underway. The flooding would surpass all other American floods in terms of destruction and duration.
1994 - Lightning struck and killed two golfers, and injured another, at the Lincoln Golf Course in northeastern Oklahoma City. These golfers were seeking shelter from a thunderstorm under trees when they were struck by lightning.
1996 - Severe thunderstorm winds damaged a large hanger door and turned a Boeing 727 aircraft 180 degrees at Orlando International Airport in Florida. Lightning injured three landscape workers near the University of Central Florida.
2001 - A dust devil formed near Las Cruces, NM. The whirlwind became a landspout when it moved under a developing thunderstorm. It remained on the ground for 15 minutes, observed by thousands of people. The thunderstorm winds caused some light damage that was attributed to the landspout/dust devil.
2002 - Parts of New Jersey that had barely gotten three inches of snow during the winter were buried in up to 8 inches of hail. People had to break out their snow shovels for the first time of the year.
2004 - Annette Island, AK set their all-time record high temperature with 93°.
2006 - Up to 11 inches of rain fell in the Houston, Texas area, causing widespread flash flooding. The Houston Fire Department rescued more than 500 people from flood waters, but no serious injuries or fatalities were reported.
2008 - Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding and mudslides across parts of South Africa. Hardest hit was the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, where four people died. Scottburg, KwaZulu-Natal received 5 inches of rain in 24 hours.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=6&d=19
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_june
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... nd-tropics
http://floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/1925to1900.htm
http://floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/1950to1925.htm
Interesting to note that Texas was hit by massive flooding in June and September 1921. Both were caused by hurricanes that made landfall.
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Interesting. I could not find much information about it.Ed Mahmoud wrote:
1875 - A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Eastport ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph. (David Ludlum)
For June 24th
1816 - The cold weather of early June finally gave way to several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts, including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem. (David Ludlum)
1904 - A tornado hit the Karacharov Village area in Moscow, Russia killing 24 people.
1924 - Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem, NC, sought shelter from a thunderstorm. The structure chosen contained a quantity of dynamite. Lightning struck a near-by tree causing the dynamite to explode. The men were killed instantly. (The Weather Channel)
1929 - A hailstorm at Durban, South Africa, produced hail the size of baseballs. The noise produced by the storm was described as sounding like "machine gun fire".
1946 - 11.72 inches of rain fell at Mellen, WI during a 24 hour period. This is the greatest 24-hour precipitation total ever recorded in the state. There was flooding on the Bad and White Rivers.
1951 - Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars damage. The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit. It was the most disastrous hailstorm of record for the state of Kansas. (David Ludlum)
1952 - Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and 3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota. Poultry and livestock were killed, and many persons were injured. Hail ten inches in circumference was reported at Huron SD. (The Weather Channel)
1954 - Hurricane Alice formed in the northern Bay of Campeche and moved northwest making landfall on the 25th and flooded the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas with up to 27 inches of rain. The U.S. 90 roadway was 30 feet below high water.
1957 - On the basis of meteorological data and a radio report from a shrimp boat, the Weather Bureau in New Orleans issued the first advisory on a tropical depression in the Bay of Campeche at 10:30pm. The depression was located 300 miles south of Brownsville, TX. The storm would become Hurricane Audrey, moving northward over the next three days and striking near the Louisiana/Texas border causing extreme damage and loss of life.
Palm Springs, CA hit 121°, equaling their highest temperature for June (6/26/1957 & 6/29/1994).
1960 - A tornado at Schenectady, NY destroyed 16 homes with over 300 homes suffering major damage.
1967 - Sheridan, WY fell to 32°, their latest freeze on record; the high temperature the previous day was only 47°.
1972 - A rare eastward moving tornado raced through Maniaki, Quebec Canada. The twister was spawned amid the remnants of Hurricane Agnes.
1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed at JFK airport in New York City. 113 of the 124 people on board the aircraft died. Researcher Theodore Fujita studied the incident and discovered that the crash was caused by a microburst. His research lead to improved air safety. The tower never experienced the microburst, which was held back by a seabreeze front. The plane crashed 2,400 feet short of the runway.
1980 - From this date through July 5th, Wichita Falls, TX set record high temperatures each day. Those records have yet to be exceeded. On 11 consecutive days during this period, the temperature rose to at least 110°. Readings exceeded 113° on seven days. During the entire summer, the temperature rose above 100° on 79 days, which is also a record. Heat waves and drought often occur together, and 1980 was no exception. June 1980, with only 0.26 inches of rain, was the driest June since 1933, and the combination of June and July 1980 was the driest June-July period ever recorded in the city.
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado. Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder, CO, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train near Pratt, KS. The town of Gould, OK, was soaked with nearly an inch and a half of rain in just ten minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Valentine NE reported an all-time record high of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 degrees at Casper, WY, 103 degrees at Reno, NV, and 106 degrees at Winnemucca, NV, were records for the month of June. Highs of 98 degrees at Logan, UT, and 109 degrees at Rapid City, SD, equalled June records. Lightning killed twenty-one cows near Conway, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Tropical Storm Allison produced major flooding in north and east Harris County and in southern Liberty and northern Chambers counties where over 10 inches of rain fell in a 24 hour period. Storm totals for four days ending on the 27th were close to 15 inches in eastern Harris County. Major overbank flooding began on rivers and bayous on the 26th and continued in the area through the first week in July. All rivers and lowlands in the area were flooded and waters were very slow to recede. Tides up to 7 feet occurred at the upper end of Trinity Bay near Baytown. There were 11 drowning fatalities and a half billion dollars damage due to Allison.
Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and Nebraska. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River, NE, and hail three inches in diameter at Wheeler, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 - 3.50 inches of rain fell in 28 minutes at Scranton, ND. There were also 1.5 foot drifts of marble size hail. Front end loaders were needed to clear the streets.
1992 - A tropical depression in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico produced periods of heavy rainfall over southwest and west central Florida from this date through the 30th. Four-day rainfall totals (25th-28th) of as much as 25 inches were recorded, with 8 to 14 inches common. The heaviest rain fell over Manatee and Sarasota Counties causing widespread river and small stream flooding of homes and roads. 70 homes were destroyed by floodwaters, and the combination of winds, waves and tides led to significant beach erosion and undermining of seawalls in some locations. Two flood-related deaths occurred on the 29th - a man drowned in his flooded front yard in Manatee County and a man was crushed to death between two gasoline storage tanks dislodged by floodwaters at an auto service shop in Charlotte County. All-time record flood crest on the 29th at Myakka St. Park on the Myakka River. Flood waters did not fully recede in some areas until the end of June.
1994 - Australia’s coldest night on record occurred as the town of Charlotte Pass in New South Wales dropped to -9°.
1996 - Severe weather pounded much of the Mid Atlantic Coast with Washington D.C. especially hard hit. Numerous reports of tornadoes, funnel clouds, damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain were reported. Tornadoes were reported in Upperville, Middleburg, Manassas, Centreville and Fairfax City, VA. There were numerous reports of downed trees and damage to structures across Northern Virginia and the Eastern Shore area of Maryland.
1997 - Charleston, WV, finally hit 90° for the first time this year. The last 90-degree day was back on 5/19/1996, totaling 400 days in which it stayed below 90°. That is their longest stretch this century between 90 degree days.
1998 - An unusually damaging wind event occurred during the late night and early morning hours in southwestern Iowa. Winds were sustained at 30-50 mph for over an hour at several locations, including Creston, Shenandoah, Clarinda and Red Oak, IA. Shenandoah, IA reported a gust to 80 mph. Two factors are surmised to have caused the event. First, light showers had moved through the area left lots of hot, dry air aloft between 4,000-10,000 feet. When rain fell through the dry air, it cooled, which made it heavier and resulted in strong downdrafts and high winds. Secondly, winds between 600-5,000 feet were quite strong and the momentum of these winds dropped to the surface causing higher winds. The wind event was accompanied by dramatic rises in temperature.
The Davis-Beese Nuclear Power plant on the shores of Lake Erie in western Ohio was shut down automatically as a tornado broke power lines. 30 people were injured in the Green Cove Resort area.
2002 - The Missionary Ridge wildfire was visible from downtown Durango, CO as the fire continued to burn out of control northeast of the city. Local residents praying for rain would be rewarded a few days later as monsoonal moisture brought some rain to the parched area. The fire would eventually burn nearly 75,000 acres, making it the second largest wildfire in Colorado history.
2003 - A large F4 tornado destroyed the community of Manchester, SD. It was part of a swarm of nearly 60 tornadoes that touched down across eastern South Dakota. An armored camera placed in the path of the tornado by the National Geographic Society was blown nearly 500 feet and destroyed. Very little usable video was recorded. Meanwhile, researcher Tim Samaras deployed a measurement probe just 70 seconds before the twister struck it. The probe measured a pressure drop of 100 millibars, the largest ever recorded.
An unusually strong early summer low pressure system in the Rockies dumped up to a foot of wet snow over the western mountains of Wyoming and parts of Yellowstone National Park. The snow fell at elevations above 8,000 feet.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=6&d=24
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_june
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... nd-tropics
1816 - The cold weather of early June finally gave way to several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts, including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem. (David Ludlum)
1904 - A tornado hit the Karacharov Village area in Moscow, Russia killing 24 people.
1924 - Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem, NC, sought shelter from a thunderstorm. The structure chosen contained a quantity of dynamite. Lightning struck a near-by tree causing the dynamite to explode. The men were killed instantly. (The Weather Channel)
1929 - A hailstorm at Durban, South Africa, produced hail the size of baseballs. The noise produced by the storm was described as sounding like "machine gun fire".
1946 - 11.72 inches of rain fell at Mellen, WI during a 24 hour period. This is the greatest 24-hour precipitation total ever recorded in the state. There was flooding on the Bad and White Rivers.
1951 - Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars damage. The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit. It was the most disastrous hailstorm of record for the state of Kansas. (David Ludlum)
1952 - Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and 3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota. Poultry and livestock were killed, and many persons were injured. Hail ten inches in circumference was reported at Huron SD. (The Weather Channel)
1954 - Hurricane Alice formed in the northern Bay of Campeche and moved northwest making landfall on the 25th and flooded the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas with up to 27 inches of rain. The U.S. 90 roadway was 30 feet below high water.
1957 - On the basis of meteorological data and a radio report from a shrimp boat, the Weather Bureau in New Orleans issued the first advisory on a tropical depression in the Bay of Campeche at 10:30pm. The depression was located 300 miles south of Brownsville, TX. The storm would become Hurricane Audrey, moving northward over the next three days and striking near the Louisiana/Texas border causing extreme damage and loss of life.
Palm Springs, CA hit 121°, equaling their highest temperature for June (6/26/1957 & 6/29/1994).
1960 - A tornado at Schenectady, NY destroyed 16 homes with over 300 homes suffering major damage.
1967 - Sheridan, WY fell to 32°, their latest freeze on record; the high temperature the previous day was only 47°.
1972 - A rare eastward moving tornado raced through Maniaki, Quebec Canada. The twister was spawned amid the remnants of Hurricane Agnes.
1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed at JFK airport in New York City. 113 of the 124 people on board the aircraft died. Researcher Theodore Fujita studied the incident and discovered that the crash was caused by a microburst. His research lead to improved air safety. The tower never experienced the microburst, which was held back by a seabreeze front. The plane crashed 2,400 feet short of the runway.
1980 - From this date through July 5th, Wichita Falls, TX set record high temperatures each day. Those records have yet to be exceeded. On 11 consecutive days during this period, the temperature rose to at least 110°. Readings exceeded 113° on seven days. During the entire summer, the temperature rose above 100° on 79 days, which is also a record. Heat waves and drought often occur together, and 1980 was no exception. June 1980, with only 0.26 inches of rain, was the driest June since 1933, and the combination of June and July 1980 was the driest June-July period ever recorded in the city.
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado. Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder, CO, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train near Pratt, KS. The town of Gould, OK, was soaked with nearly an inch and a half of rain in just ten minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Valentine NE reported an all-time record high of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 degrees at Casper, WY, 103 degrees at Reno, NV, and 106 degrees at Winnemucca, NV, were records for the month of June. Highs of 98 degrees at Logan, UT, and 109 degrees at Rapid City, SD, equalled June records. Lightning killed twenty-one cows near Conway, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Tropical Storm Allison produced major flooding in north and east Harris County and in southern Liberty and northern Chambers counties where over 10 inches of rain fell in a 24 hour period. Storm totals for four days ending on the 27th were close to 15 inches in eastern Harris County. Major overbank flooding began on rivers and bayous on the 26th and continued in the area through the first week in July. All rivers and lowlands in the area were flooded and waters were very slow to recede. Tides up to 7 feet occurred at the upper end of Trinity Bay near Baytown. There were 11 drowning fatalities and a half billion dollars damage due to Allison.
Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and Nebraska. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River, NE, and hail three inches in diameter at Wheeler, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1991 - 3.50 inches of rain fell in 28 minutes at Scranton, ND. There were also 1.5 foot drifts of marble size hail. Front end loaders were needed to clear the streets.
1992 - A tropical depression in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico produced periods of heavy rainfall over southwest and west central Florida from this date through the 30th. Four-day rainfall totals (25th-28th) of as much as 25 inches were recorded, with 8 to 14 inches common. The heaviest rain fell over Manatee and Sarasota Counties causing widespread river and small stream flooding of homes and roads. 70 homes were destroyed by floodwaters, and the combination of winds, waves and tides led to significant beach erosion and undermining of seawalls in some locations. Two flood-related deaths occurred on the 29th - a man drowned in his flooded front yard in Manatee County and a man was crushed to death between two gasoline storage tanks dislodged by floodwaters at an auto service shop in Charlotte County. All-time record flood crest on the 29th at Myakka St. Park on the Myakka River. Flood waters did not fully recede in some areas until the end of June.
1994 - Australia’s coldest night on record occurred as the town of Charlotte Pass in New South Wales dropped to -9°.
1996 - Severe weather pounded much of the Mid Atlantic Coast with Washington D.C. especially hard hit. Numerous reports of tornadoes, funnel clouds, damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain were reported. Tornadoes were reported in Upperville, Middleburg, Manassas, Centreville and Fairfax City, VA. There were numerous reports of downed trees and damage to structures across Northern Virginia and the Eastern Shore area of Maryland.
1997 - Charleston, WV, finally hit 90° for the first time this year. The last 90-degree day was back on 5/19/1996, totaling 400 days in which it stayed below 90°. That is their longest stretch this century between 90 degree days.
1998 - An unusually damaging wind event occurred during the late night and early morning hours in southwestern Iowa. Winds were sustained at 30-50 mph for over an hour at several locations, including Creston, Shenandoah, Clarinda and Red Oak, IA. Shenandoah, IA reported a gust to 80 mph. Two factors are surmised to have caused the event. First, light showers had moved through the area left lots of hot, dry air aloft between 4,000-10,000 feet. When rain fell through the dry air, it cooled, which made it heavier and resulted in strong downdrafts and high winds. Secondly, winds between 600-5,000 feet were quite strong and the momentum of these winds dropped to the surface causing higher winds. The wind event was accompanied by dramatic rises in temperature.
The Davis-Beese Nuclear Power plant on the shores of Lake Erie in western Ohio was shut down automatically as a tornado broke power lines. 30 people were injured in the Green Cove Resort area.
2002 - The Missionary Ridge wildfire was visible from downtown Durango, CO as the fire continued to burn out of control northeast of the city. Local residents praying for rain would be rewarded a few days later as monsoonal moisture brought some rain to the parched area. The fire would eventually burn nearly 75,000 acres, making it the second largest wildfire in Colorado history.
2003 - A large F4 tornado destroyed the community of Manchester, SD. It was part of a swarm of nearly 60 tornadoes that touched down across eastern South Dakota. An armored camera placed in the path of the tornado by the National Geographic Society was blown nearly 500 feet and destroyed. Very little usable video was recorded. Meanwhile, researcher Tim Samaras deployed a measurement probe just 70 seconds before the twister struck it. The probe measured a pressure drop of 100 millibars, the largest ever recorded.
An unusually strong early summer low pressure system in the Rockies dumped up to a foot of wet snow over the western mountains of Wyoming and parts of Yellowstone National Park. The snow fell at elevations above 8,000 feet.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=6&d=24
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_june
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... nd-tropics
For June 26th
1888 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave. Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow. (David Ludlum)
1930 - Lightning struck the John B. King drillship in the St. Lawrence River, igniting a storage of dynamite onboard. The resulting explosion killed 30 people and injured 11 others.
1931 - The temperature soars to 92° at Anchorage, AK, their hottest reading of record to date.
1933 - A hailstorm swept a path of destruction 12 miles wide and 40 miles long across eastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
1954 - Under calm winds and a bright sunny sky a killer wave rose suddenly from a placid Lake Michigan sweeping 8 unsuspecting fishermen off a breakwater to their deaths. The water level at Montrose Harbor surged more than 10 feet within a few minutes. The “seiche” was caused by an earlier squall on the lake.
1957 - Residents of Cameron, LA went to bed believing that they had plenty of time to evacuate the following morning in advance of what was then Category 2 Hurricane Audrey. Official bulletins from the U.S. Weather Bureau stated that the storm would not come ashore until late the next day. They would be very surprised the next morning to find water covering much of their parish as a 12 foot storm surge was already impacting the area and the center was just offshore. Also, Audrey had intensified rapidly during the night, with the central pressure dropping 35 millibars from the last reconnaissance fix during the day. Winds correspondingly increased to 145 mph and the storm surge rose from an expected 5 to 8 feet to a devastating 12 feet and higher. Additionally, the forward movement of the hurricane increased from 6 to 15 mph, and residents were told that the hurricane would not strike until the following afternoon. 390 people died and another 192 were missing.
The high temperature at Palm Springs, CA hit 121°; tying their highest temperature set on 6/24 & 6/29/1994.
1959 - The Weather Bureau installed its first WSR-57 Weather Radar at Miami, FL.
1961 - This was the 10th consecutive day of temperatures in Las Vegas, NV reaching 110° or hotter making this the longest on record.
1977 - The Human Lightning Conductor, park ranger Roy C. Sullivan, was struck by lightning for the seventh time. He was first hit in 1942, then again in 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976. (The Weather Channel)
1980 - Strong thunderstorm winds caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage across central and eastern South Dakota. Severe weather was widespread across the east during this outbreak with high winds doing the most damage. Severe storms with winds over 60 mph were reported in at least 10 separate counties. The hardest hit area was Mitchell where 100 mph winds slammed into the city wiping out trees, blowing out windows, and damaging the airport. Damage in Mitchell alone exceeded $200,000 dollars.
Several locations across the Plains endured record breaking heat including: Dallas (DFW), TX: 113°, Wichita Falls, TX: 113°, Dallas (Love Field), TX: 112°, Wichita, KS: 109°, Waco, TX: 107°, Grand Junction, CO: 106, Houston, TX: 102°, San Antonio, TX: 102°, North Platte, NE: 101°, Corpus Christi: 100° and Victoria, TX: 100°.
1983 - Two days of severe thunderstorms battered much of western north Texas on this date and the 27th. On this date, winds stronger than 60 mph toppled a wall in a historic building in Vernon. The next day, 85 mph winds blew through Chillicothe, while a tornado passed just north of the town. The winds also blew down two miles of power lines near Odell, and destroyed a drive-in movie theater in Seymour.
Record heat prevailed from Texas to Michigan. Alpena MI hit 98 degrees. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1985 - A spectacular early morning waterspout developed at 5:20 AM (MST) from a stationary thunderstorm over the south end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It was visible 20 miles away, and lasted four minutes. (The Weather Channel)
1986 - Hurricane Bonnie became the first June hurricane to affect the Texas coast since 1957 when she made landfall between High Island and Sabine Pass early in the morning. The main weather from Bonnie was flooding across portions of Southeast Texas. Around 1300 persons were forced from their homes from the torrential rains which were heaviest from the Beaumont area northwest to Lake Livingston. As much as 13 inches of rain fell at Ace in southern Polk County. This heavy rain produced a runoff that resulted in a rise on the Mill and Menard Creek that flooded Bear Foot Lake and some homes surrounding the lake. The lake rose and the flood waters eroded part of the Big Thicket Lake Estate Dam. Below the dam, about 200 families were evacuated in fear that the structure would give way. There were no injuries or deaths from this event. In San Jacinto County, flooding occured along Big Creek which closed US Highway 59 for several hours. There was overbank flooding in Polk County. Tides were generally 3 to 4 feet on the Bolivar Peninsula. The highest tide at Galveston was 2.2 feet on the evening of the 25th. The effects of Bonnie on Galveston and Harris Counties were trifle or nil.
1987 - Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest. Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Seattle, WA, 103 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding, CA, were records for the date. Cloudy and cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. The high at Boston, MA, was just 60 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thirteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. In Montana, the record high of 102 degrees at Billings, MT, was their fifteenth of the month, and the high of 108 degrees at Glasgow MT equalled their record for June. Thunderstorms in the Atlantic Coast Region produced wind gusts to 102 mph at Tall Timbers MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Central Plains to the Middle Mississippi Valley. There were 129 reports of severe weather during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Liberal, and hail 4 inches in diameter at Quinter. Thunderstorms in Wisconsin spawned a tornado at Lake Delton injuring 4 people. Lightning struck and killed a woman at Junction City, KS when she got out of her car to photograph the lightning.
1990 - Unseasonably hot temperatures occurred across from the western Plains across to the southwest portions of the nation. 122° was recorded both in Phoenix and Yuma, AZ. 107° was reached in Amarillo, TX and Tucson, AZ checked in with a high of 117°. Lander, WY set a record high with 99°.
1993 - A very unstable air mass was situated over the upper Midwest. Thunderstorms developed over eastern Nebraska that afternoon and moved eastward into Iowa. Large hail was frequent with these storms. Two miles northwest of Little Sioux, golf ball size hail completely covered the ground and strong winds caused this hail to drift. The most significant hail damage occurred in Shelby County. Here, a thunderstorm dropped golf ball to softball size hail in a swath about two miles wide and 20 miles long. Baseball size hail covered the ground six miles north of Harlan. Reports of 75% crop destruction were common within this hail swath.
1994 - Searing heat was prevalent across the southwestern U.S. as a huge 600 decameter 500 millibar high pushed temperatures to record levels. Albuquerque, NM hit 107°, for its hottest temperature ever. The same record was set at Lubbock, TX with 111°. Both Midland and El Paso, TX reached 112°, to both tie their hottest temperatures on record. Escondido, CA hot 105° tying their hottest temperature for June (6/18/1957 & 6/11/1979). Daily record highs included: Roswell, NM: 111°, Denver, CO: 104°, Grand Junction, CO: 104°, Colorado Springs, CO: 98°, Alamosa, CO: 95°, Death Valley, CA had a morning low of 102°.
1996 - In two separate incidences in Florida, severe thunderstorm winds overturned a small aircraft at both Vero Beach Municipal Airport and Ft. Pierce Airport, where wind gusts to 81 mph were recorded.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms crossed the Niagara Frontier, the western southern tier and eastern Lake Ontario Region in New York during the early morning hours. The thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds which downed trees and power lines. One-inch hail fell in Batavia. Wind damage was reported in Sodus, Castorland, North Tonawanda, Alden and Collins. The damage from thunderstorm winds paled in comparison to the damage resulting from the flash floods the thunderstorms produced. Five to six inches of rain fell in a 200 square mile area sending small streams out of their banks causing several million dollars worth of property damage in the Villages of Arcade and Gowanda. Cattaraugus Creek rose faster than any time in memory and crested two feet over flood stage. This surge caused many boats to break loose from their moorings at the mouth of the creek at Sunset Bay and over a hundred boats were shoved out into Lake Erie and wrecked. Erie, Wyoming and Cattaraugus counties were declared state and federal disaster areas. In Arcade, 37 were rescued from treetops and rooftops by the Water Rescue Team. Over 130 homes were damaged in Arcade.
1999 - 15 inches of rain fell, most of it between 9pm and midnight, over the Schriever, LA area as thunderstorms continuously redeveloped and “trained” over the same areas. Roads were underwater and about 100 homes were damaged.
The most damaging hailstorm to ever strike Cheyenne County, Wyoming occurred. Hail up to baseball size and winds up to 80 mph devastated much of the western part of the county. Damage to property and crops exceeded $26 million dollars.
2002 - Phenomenal flash flooding struck Fort Wayne, IN as thunderstorms developed and re-developed directly over the city for several hours during the evening. Times Corner reported 8 inches of rain in three hours. Spy Run Creek rose 9 feet in 8 hours to an all-time record level of 12.3 feet. Three inches of rain fell in 90 minutes.
2007 - The hottest day during a heat wave across Greece sent the thermometer to 115° in two towns. In Athens the afternoon temperature soared to 109°. Five people died in southern and central Greece from the heat.
In Catania in eastern Sicily, the afternoon temperature hit 108°.
2008 - During the evening hours, a compact upper level low pressure system tracking through the Northern Plains interacted with a very moist and unstable air mass over western and central South Dakota resulting in a widespread severe weather outbreak. Three confirmed tornadoes occurred briefly in western Dewey County. Little or no damage was reported and all three tornadoes were rated EF0. In addition to the tornadoes, multiple reports of large hail were received over Corson and Dewey Counties, including some to the size of baseballs near the communities of McLaughlin and Isabel. The large hail broke out many home and vehicle windows and damaged many roofs in Dewey, Corson, and Sully Counties. Significant wind damage occurred over sections of Sully County. There were multiple reports of wind gusts in excess of 70 mph, with the most concentrated swath of damaging winds extending from near Sutton Bay, eastward to the city of Onida, then southeast to the community of Harrold. The storm survey began near Sutton Bay on Lake Oahe, where a wind gust of 92 mph was recorded. The most significant property damage was found further east near the community of Agar where multiple grain bins were either damaged or destroyed. Nine miles west of Agar, a barn was destroyed and a large pine tree was snapped in half. Winds in this area were estimated to range from 80 to 100 mph. Close to the intersection of Highways 1804 and 175th street several Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) electrical transmission towers were completely collapsed. This is consistent with wind speeds ranging from 130 to 140 mph. In the city of Onida, a bank roof was damaged and the city was without power until the next day. Four miles north of Onida, a feed wagon was tossed nearly 40 feet. In Harrold, several railroad cars were tipped over. Also of great significance during the event was the peak wind speed of 124 mph recorded at the Onida airport. This wind speed is the strongest wind gust ever measured in the Aberdeen County Warning Area and the 4th strongest wind speed ever reported in South Dakota.
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1888 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave. Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow. (David Ludlum)
1930 - Lightning struck the John B. King drillship in the St. Lawrence River, igniting a storage of dynamite onboard. The resulting explosion killed 30 people and injured 11 others.
1931 - The temperature soars to 92° at Anchorage, AK, their hottest reading of record to date.
1933 - A hailstorm swept a path of destruction 12 miles wide and 40 miles long across eastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
1954 - Under calm winds and a bright sunny sky a killer wave rose suddenly from a placid Lake Michigan sweeping 8 unsuspecting fishermen off a breakwater to their deaths. The water level at Montrose Harbor surged more than 10 feet within a few minutes. The “seiche” was caused by an earlier squall on the lake.
1957 - Residents of Cameron, LA went to bed believing that they had plenty of time to evacuate the following morning in advance of what was then Category 2 Hurricane Audrey. Official bulletins from the U.S. Weather Bureau stated that the storm would not come ashore until late the next day. They would be very surprised the next morning to find water covering much of their parish as a 12 foot storm surge was already impacting the area and the center was just offshore. Also, Audrey had intensified rapidly during the night, with the central pressure dropping 35 millibars from the last reconnaissance fix during the day. Winds correspondingly increased to 145 mph and the storm surge rose from an expected 5 to 8 feet to a devastating 12 feet and higher. Additionally, the forward movement of the hurricane increased from 6 to 15 mph, and residents were told that the hurricane would not strike until the following afternoon. 390 people died and another 192 were missing.
The high temperature at Palm Springs, CA hit 121°; tying their highest temperature set on 6/24 & 6/29/1994.
1959 - The Weather Bureau installed its first WSR-57 Weather Radar at Miami, FL.
1961 - This was the 10th consecutive day of temperatures in Las Vegas, NV reaching 110° or hotter making this the longest on record.
1977 - The Human Lightning Conductor, park ranger Roy C. Sullivan, was struck by lightning for the seventh time. He was first hit in 1942, then again in 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976. (The Weather Channel)
1980 - Strong thunderstorm winds caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage across central and eastern South Dakota. Severe weather was widespread across the east during this outbreak with high winds doing the most damage. Severe storms with winds over 60 mph were reported in at least 10 separate counties. The hardest hit area was Mitchell where 100 mph winds slammed into the city wiping out trees, blowing out windows, and damaging the airport. Damage in Mitchell alone exceeded $200,000 dollars.
Several locations across the Plains endured record breaking heat including: Dallas (DFW), TX: 113°, Wichita Falls, TX: 113°, Dallas (Love Field), TX: 112°, Wichita, KS: 109°, Waco, TX: 107°, Grand Junction, CO: 106, Houston, TX: 102°, San Antonio, TX: 102°, North Platte, NE: 101°, Corpus Christi: 100° and Victoria, TX: 100°.
1983 - Two days of severe thunderstorms battered much of western north Texas on this date and the 27th. On this date, winds stronger than 60 mph toppled a wall in a historic building in Vernon. The next day, 85 mph winds blew through Chillicothe, while a tornado passed just north of the town. The winds also blew down two miles of power lines near Odell, and destroyed a drive-in movie theater in Seymour.
Record heat prevailed from Texas to Michigan. Alpena MI hit 98 degrees. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1985 - A spectacular early morning waterspout developed at 5:20 AM (MST) from a stationary thunderstorm over the south end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It was visible 20 miles away, and lasted four minutes. (The Weather Channel)
1986 - Hurricane Bonnie became the first June hurricane to affect the Texas coast since 1957 when she made landfall between High Island and Sabine Pass early in the morning. The main weather from Bonnie was flooding across portions of Southeast Texas. Around 1300 persons were forced from their homes from the torrential rains which were heaviest from the Beaumont area northwest to Lake Livingston. As much as 13 inches of rain fell at Ace in southern Polk County. This heavy rain produced a runoff that resulted in a rise on the Mill and Menard Creek that flooded Bear Foot Lake and some homes surrounding the lake. The lake rose and the flood waters eroded part of the Big Thicket Lake Estate Dam. Below the dam, about 200 families were evacuated in fear that the structure would give way. There were no injuries or deaths from this event. In San Jacinto County, flooding occured along Big Creek which closed US Highway 59 for several hours. There was overbank flooding in Polk County. Tides were generally 3 to 4 feet on the Bolivar Peninsula. The highest tide at Galveston was 2.2 feet on the evening of the 25th. The effects of Bonnie on Galveston and Harris Counties were trifle or nil.
1987 - Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest. Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Seattle, WA, 103 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding, CA, were records for the date. Cloudy and cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. The high at Boston, MA, was just 60 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thirteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. In Montana, the record high of 102 degrees at Billings, MT, was their fifteenth of the month, and the high of 108 degrees at Glasgow MT equalled their record for June. Thunderstorms in the Atlantic Coast Region produced wind gusts to 102 mph at Tall Timbers MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Central Plains to the Middle Mississippi Valley. There were 129 reports of severe weather during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Liberal, and hail 4 inches in diameter at Quinter. Thunderstorms in Wisconsin spawned a tornado at Lake Delton injuring 4 people. Lightning struck and killed a woman at Junction City, KS when she got out of her car to photograph the lightning.
1990 - Unseasonably hot temperatures occurred across from the western Plains across to the southwest portions of the nation. 122° was recorded both in Phoenix and Yuma, AZ. 107° was reached in Amarillo, TX and Tucson, AZ checked in with a high of 117°. Lander, WY set a record high with 99°.
1993 - A very unstable air mass was situated over the upper Midwest. Thunderstorms developed over eastern Nebraska that afternoon and moved eastward into Iowa. Large hail was frequent with these storms. Two miles northwest of Little Sioux, golf ball size hail completely covered the ground and strong winds caused this hail to drift. The most significant hail damage occurred in Shelby County. Here, a thunderstorm dropped golf ball to softball size hail in a swath about two miles wide and 20 miles long. Baseball size hail covered the ground six miles north of Harlan. Reports of 75% crop destruction were common within this hail swath.
1994 - Searing heat was prevalent across the southwestern U.S. as a huge 600 decameter 500 millibar high pushed temperatures to record levels. Albuquerque, NM hit 107°, for its hottest temperature ever. The same record was set at Lubbock, TX with 111°. Both Midland and El Paso, TX reached 112°, to both tie their hottest temperatures on record. Escondido, CA hot 105° tying their hottest temperature for June (6/18/1957 & 6/11/1979). Daily record highs included: Roswell, NM: 111°, Denver, CO: 104°, Grand Junction, CO: 104°, Colorado Springs, CO: 98°, Alamosa, CO: 95°, Death Valley, CA had a morning low of 102°.
1996 - In two separate incidences in Florida, severe thunderstorm winds overturned a small aircraft at both Vero Beach Municipal Airport and Ft. Pierce Airport, where wind gusts to 81 mph were recorded.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms crossed the Niagara Frontier, the western southern tier and eastern Lake Ontario Region in New York during the early morning hours. The thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds which downed trees and power lines. One-inch hail fell in Batavia. Wind damage was reported in Sodus, Castorland, North Tonawanda, Alden and Collins. The damage from thunderstorm winds paled in comparison to the damage resulting from the flash floods the thunderstorms produced. Five to six inches of rain fell in a 200 square mile area sending small streams out of their banks causing several million dollars worth of property damage in the Villages of Arcade and Gowanda. Cattaraugus Creek rose faster than any time in memory and crested two feet over flood stage. This surge caused many boats to break loose from their moorings at the mouth of the creek at Sunset Bay and over a hundred boats were shoved out into Lake Erie and wrecked. Erie, Wyoming and Cattaraugus counties were declared state and federal disaster areas. In Arcade, 37 were rescued from treetops and rooftops by the Water Rescue Team. Over 130 homes were damaged in Arcade.
1999 - 15 inches of rain fell, most of it between 9pm and midnight, over the Schriever, LA area as thunderstorms continuously redeveloped and “trained” over the same areas. Roads were underwater and about 100 homes were damaged.
The most damaging hailstorm to ever strike Cheyenne County, Wyoming occurred. Hail up to baseball size and winds up to 80 mph devastated much of the western part of the county. Damage to property and crops exceeded $26 million dollars.
2002 - Phenomenal flash flooding struck Fort Wayne, IN as thunderstorms developed and re-developed directly over the city for several hours during the evening. Times Corner reported 8 inches of rain in three hours. Spy Run Creek rose 9 feet in 8 hours to an all-time record level of 12.3 feet. Three inches of rain fell in 90 minutes.
2007 - The hottest day during a heat wave across Greece sent the thermometer to 115° in two towns. In Athens the afternoon temperature soared to 109°. Five people died in southern and central Greece from the heat.
In Catania in eastern Sicily, the afternoon temperature hit 108°.
2008 - During the evening hours, a compact upper level low pressure system tracking through the Northern Plains interacted with a very moist and unstable air mass over western and central South Dakota resulting in a widespread severe weather outbreak. Three confirmed tornadoes occurred briefly in western Dewey County. Little or no damage was reported and all three tornadoes were rated EF0. In addition to the tornadoes, multiple reports of large hail were received over Corson and Dewey Counties, including some to the size of baseballs near the communities of McLaughlin and Isabel. The large hail broke out many home and vehicle windows and damaged many roofs in Dewey, Corson, and Sully Counties. Significant wind damage occurred over sections of Sully County. There were multiple reports of wind gusts in excess of 70 mph, with the most concentrated swath of damaging winds extending from near Sutton Bay, eastward to the city of Onida, then southeast to the community of Harrold. The storm survey began near Sutton Bay on Lake Oahe, where a wind gust of 92 mph was recorded. The most significant property damage was found further east near the community of Agar where multiple grain bins were either damaged or destroyed. Nine miles west of Agar, a barn was destroyed and a large pine tree was snapped in half. Winds in this area were estimated to range from 80 to 100 mph. Close to the intersection of Highways 1804 and 175th street several Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) electrical transmission towers were completely collapsed. This is consistent with wind speeds ranging from 130 to 140 mph. In the city of Onida, a bank roof was damaged and the city was without power until the next day. Four miles north of Onida, a feed wagon was tossed nearly 40 feet. In Harrold, several railroad cars were tipped over. Also of great significance during the event was the peak wind speed of 124 mph recorded at the Onida airport. This wind speed is the strongest wind gust ever measured in the Aberdeen County Warning Area and the 4th strongest wind speed ever reported in South Dakota.
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For June 27th
1901 - There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower. (David Ludlum)
1915 - The temperature at Fort Yukon AK soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1927 - The highest minimum temperature was recorded at Palm Springs, CA; as the overnight low dropped to just 97°.
1934 - Record heat occurred across the Midwest. Locations setting record June high temperatures included: Fayette, IA: 108°, Charles City, IA: 105°, Grand Meadow, MN: 105°, New Hampton, IA: 105°, and Rochester, MN: 105°.
Other daily record highs included: Waterloo, IA: 107°, Sioux City, IA: 104°, Peoria, IL: 104°, Springfield, IL: 104°, Des Moines, IA: 102°, Dubuque, IA: 102°, Moline, IL: 102°, Sioux Falls, SD: 101° and Indianapolis, IN: 100°.
1947 - The Netherlands recorded their hottest June day on record when the high reached 101° in Maastricht.
1951 - Shortly after midnight a tornado struck the northern part of Wakeeney, KS killing 4 people and completely destroying 45 homes. Around 60 more homes were heavily damaged. The loss was estimated at nearly $2 million dollars.
1952 - Lodgepole, CA received 0.2 inches of snow pushing the seasonal snowfall total to 522.9 inches; making it their snowiest winter ever. This is also the latest snow has fallen there.
1955 - A strong tornado moved through Scottsbluff along a 26 mile track. 25 people were injured with 2 fatalities. Damage was about $250,000 dollars, significant for that time.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron, LA, drowning +500 people in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Audrey left only a brick courthouse and a cement-block icehouse standing at Cameron, and when the waters settled in the town of Crede, only four buildings remained. The powerful winds of Audrey tossed a fishing boat weighing 78 tons onto an off-shore drilling platform. Winds along the coast gusted to 105 mph, and oil rigs off the Louisiana coast reported wind gusts to 180 mph. A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland. It was the deadliest June hurricane of record for the U.S. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Richmond, VA recorded its worst flood on record from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes. The water level at the city locks reached 36.5 feet, considerably higher than the 1771 level of 30 feet.
1987 - Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in north central Kansas after midnight. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at Lake Waconda injuring sixteen persons. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Beloit and Sylvan Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The afternoon high of 107 degrees at Bismarck, ND, was a record for the month of June, and Pensacola, FL, equalled their June record with a reading of 101 degrees. Temperatures in the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio Valley dipped into the 40s. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Ohio Valley to western New England. Thunderstorm spawned six tornadoes, and there were 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds.
Tropical Storm Allison spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana, injuring two persons at Hackberry. Fort Polk LA was drenched with 10.09 inches of rain in 36 hours, and 12.87 inches was reported at the Gorum Fire Tower in northern Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A series of severe thunderstorms ripped across Lake, Lincoln, and Minnehaha counties in southeast South Dakota. The storms produced some of the most widespread damage from wind and hail that the area had seen in several years. Damage to property in Sioux Falls and surrounding areas was considerable. In Sioux Falls, two houses were destroyed and another 150 houses and numerous businesses received significant damage from strong winds. In Colton, SD several homes and businesses lost windows due to hail and strong winds. Lightning caused a fire which burnt a home to the ground in Crooks, SD. Total damage from the storms exceeded $10 million dollars. Fortunately for residents of southwest Minnesota the storms decreased in strength as they crossed the state line.
Record heat continued in parts of the Rockies to the southwest. Many locations recorded record high temperatures for the date including Borrego Springs, CA: 119°, Yuma, AZ: 119°, Phoenix, AZ: 118°, Tucson, AZ: 112°, Santa Ana, CA: 104°, Escondido, CA: 103°, Denver, CO: 102° and San Diego, CA: 91°.
1991 - A record warm night occurred in Minneapolis, MN as the low temperature fell to just 79°. The normal high temperature for this date is 81°.
1992 - A severe thunderstorm dumped one to two feet of marble to golf ball size hail at Holyoke, MA. The hail lasted for 25 minutes and drifts reached three feet.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southwestern Kansas. Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding occurred across the area. A tornado was reported 8 miles west southwest of Dodge City. Rainfall amounts of five to six inches were reported in some counties. Softball size hail blew out windows and screens of a building 3 miles south of Cimarron.
A supercell thunderstorm produced five tornadoes over Hutchinson, Carson and Moore counties in Texas, including an F4 which did $35.4 million dollars in damage as it tore through Fritch. A resident of Fritch videotaped as the huge multiple vortex tornado approached, and kept the tape rolling until the tornado was practically on top of him. He survived, with the tape intact. The tape showed one of the most graphic and breathtaking displays of tornadic devastation ever recorded.
1994 - The big heat continued in the southwestern U.S. Lakewood, NM hit a scorching 119° to set a record. Pilot Plant east of Carlsbad in southwest New Mexico set the state’s all-time high temperature record as they hit 122°. Afternoon highs of 119° at Quanah, TX, 116° at Midland, TX, 114° at Lubbock, TX and Roswell, NM, and 113° at El Paso, TX set new all-time records for those locations. The mesonet station four miles south of Tipton, OK hit 120°, to tie the state record high temperature. Other daily record highs included: Victorville, CA: 109°, Abilene, TX: 109°, Albuquerque, NM: 104° and Palomar Mountain, CA: 94°.
1995 - It was a wet day in portions of the sunshine state. 8.65 inches of rain fell in Gordonsville, FL.
1998 - An intense squall line developed over Minnesota and moved into Wisconsin, producing extensive wind damage. Winds in excess of 100 mph struck Monroe County, Wisconsin as the line of thunderstorms passed.
1999 - A severe thunderstorm produced hail as large as baseballs in and around Scottsbluff, NE. 25 people were reported injured mainly from broken glass with damage estimated from $55 to $60 million dollars.
2002 - After reaching 93° the previous day, the mercury soared to 91° at Edmonton, Alberta Canada causing the city to cancel Canada Day fireworks for the first time due to tinder-dry conditions in urban ravines and woodlots.
2003 - France recorded its hottest June day on record as the temperature reached 107° in Lezignan-Corbieres.
2004 - Tropical Storm Tingting deluged the island of Guam with 16 inches of rain, shattering the daily rainfall record of 3.16 inches set in 1962.
2007 - Cold and snowy weather affected much of South Africa dropping as much as 10 inches of snow on parts of the country. In Johannesburg, this was their first significant snowfall since 1981. One fatality was attributed to the cold.
2009 - On this date through the 30th, in the Siberian "pole of cold", Verkhoyansk, one of two coldest permanent settlements on Earth, recorded four-straight days of highs 88° to 90°. Nearby in the city of Yakutsk, the high hit 90°.
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1901 - There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower. (David Ludlum)
1915 - The temperature at Fort Yukon AK soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1927 - The highest minimum temperature was recorded at Palm Springs, CA; as the overnight low dropped to just 97°.
1934 - Record heat occurred across the Midwest. Locations setting record June high temperatures included: Fayette, IA: 108°, Charles City, IA: 105°, Grand Meadow, MN: 105°, New Hampton, IA: 105°, and Rochester, MN: 105°.
Other daily record highs included: Waterloo, IA: 107°, Sioux City, IA: 104°, Peoria, IL: 104°, Springfield, IL: 104°, Des Moines, IA: 102°, Dubuque, IA: 102°, Moline, IL: 102°, Sioux Falls, SD: 101° and Indianapolis, IN: 100°.
1947 - The Netherlands recorded their hottest June day on record when the high reached 101° in Maastricht.
1951 - Shortly after midnight a tornado struck the northern part of Wakeeney, KS killing 4 people and completely destroying 45 homes. Around 60 more homes were heavily damaged. The loss was estimated at nearly $2 million dollars.
1952 - Lodgepole, CA received 0.2 inches of snow pushing the seasonal snowfall total to 522.9 inches; making it their snowiest winter ever. This is also the latest snow has fallen there.
1955 - A strong tornado moved through Scottsbluff along a 26 mile track. 25 people were injured with 2 fatalities. Damage was about $250,000 dollars, significant for that time.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron, LA, drowning +500 people in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Audrey left only a brick courthouse and a cement-block icehouse standing at Cameron, and when the waters settled in the town of Crede, only four buildings remained. The powerful winds of Audrey tossed a fishing boat weighing 78 tons onto an off-shore drilling platform. Winds along the coast gusted to 105 mph, and oil rigs off the Louisiana coast reported wind gusts to 180 mph. A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland. It was the deadliest June hurricane of record for the U.S. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Richmond, VA recorded its worst flood on record from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes. The water level at the city locks reached 36.5 feet, considerably higher than the 1771 level of 30 feet.
1987 - Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in north central Kansas after midnight. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at Lake Waconda injuring sixteen persons. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Beloit and Sylvan Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The afternoon high of 107 degrees at Bismarck, ND, was a record for the month of June, and Pensacola, FL, equalled their June record with a reading of 101 degrees. Temperatures in the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio Valley dipped into the 40s. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Ohio Valley to western New England. Thunderstorm spawned six tornadoes, and there were 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds.
Tropical Storm Allison spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana, injuring two persons at Hackberry. Fort Polk LA was drenched with 10.09 inches of rain in 36 hours, and 12.87 inches was reported at the Gorum Fire Tower in northern Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A series of severe thunderstorms ripped across Lake, Lincoln, and Minnehaha counties in southeast South Dakota. The storms produced some of the most widespread damage from wind and hail that the area had seen in several years. Damage to property in Sioux Falls and surrounding areas was considerable. In Sioux Falls, two houses were destroyed and another 150 houses and numerous businesses received significant damage from strong winds. In Colton, SD several homes and businesses lost windows due to hail and strong winds. Lightning caused a fire which burnt a home to the ground in Crooks, SD. Total damage from the storms exceeded $10 million dollars. Fortunately for residents of southwest Minnesota the storms decreased in strength as they crossed the state line.
Record heat continued in parts of the Rockies to the southwest. Many locations recorded record high temperatures for the date including Borrego Springs, CA: 119°, Yuma, AZ: 119°, Phoenix, AZ: 118°, Tucson, AZ: 112°, Santa Ana, CA: 104°, Escondido, CA: 103°, Denver, CO: 102° and San Diego, CA: 91°.
1991 - A record warm night occurred in Minneapolis, MN as the low temperature fell to just 79°. The normal high temperature for this date is 81°.
1992 - A severe thunderstorm dumped one to two feet of marble to golf ball size hail at Holyoke, MA. The hail lasted for 25 minutes and drifts reached three feet.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southwestern Kansas. Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding occurred across the area. A tornado was reported 8 miles west southwest of Dodge City. Rainfall amounts of five to six inches were reported in some counties. Softball size hail blew out windows and screens of a building 3 miles south of Cimarron.
A supercell thunderstorm produced five tornadoes over Hutchinson, Carson and Moore counties in Texas, including an F4 which did $35.4 million dollars in damage as it tore through Fritch. A resident of Fritch videotaped as the huge multiple vortex tornado approached, and kept the tape rolling until the tornado was practically on top of him. He survived, with the tape intact. The tape showed one of the most graphic and breathtaking displays of tornadic devastation ever recorded.
1994 - The big heat continued in the southwestern U.S. Lakewood, NM hit a scorching 119° to set a record. Pilot Plant east of Carlsbad in southwest New Mexico set the state’s all-time high temperature record as they hit 122°. Afternoon highs of 119° at Quanah, TX, 116° at Midland, TX, 114° at Lubbock, TX and Roswell, NM, and 113° at El Paso, TX set new all-time records for those locations. The mesonet station four miles south of Tipton, OK hit 120°, to tie the state record high temperature. Other daily record highs included: Victorville, CA: 109°, Abilene, TX: 109°, Albuquerque, NM: 104° and Palomar Mountain, CA: 94°.
1995 - It was a wet day in portions of the sunshine state. 8.65 inches of rain fell in Gordonsville, FL.
1998 - An intense squall line developed over Minnesota and moved into Wisconsin, producing extensive wind damage. Winds in excess of 100 mph struck Monroe County, Wisconsin as the line of thunderstorms passed.
1999 - A severe thunderstorm produced hail as large as baseballs in and around Scottsbluff, NE. 25 people were reported injured mainly from broken glass with damage estimated from $55 to $60 million dollars.
2002 - After reaching 93° the previous day, the mercury soared to 91° at Edmonton, Alberta Canada causing the city to cancel Canada Day fireworks for the first time due to tinder-dry conditions in urban ravines and woodlots.
2003 - France recorded its hottest June day on record as the temperature reached 107° in Lezignan-Corbieres.
2004 - Tropical Storm Tingting deluged the island of Guam with 16 inches of rain, shattering the daily rainfall record of 3.16 inches set in 1962.
2007 - Cold and snowy weather affected much of South Africa dropping as much as 10 inches of snow on parts of the country. In Johannesburg, this was their first significant snowfall since 1981. One fatality was attributed to the cold.
2009 - On this date through the 30th, in the Siberian "pole of cold", Verkhoyansk, one of two coldest permanent settlements on Earth, recorded four-straight days of highs 88° to 90°. Nearby in the city of Yakutsk, the high hit 90°.
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For June 28th
1788 - The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was 96 degrees in the shade, and there were more casualties from the heat than from bullets. (David Ludlum)
1865 - 24 people were killed by a tornado which cut a 40 mile swath through Southwest Wisconsin.
1892 - The temperature at Orogrande UT soared to 116 degrees to establish a record for the state. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
1913 - Rainfall was light to moderate along the southern Texas coast June 27-28 as a hurricane moved inland. Maximum recorded rainfall was 20.7 in. at Montell in Uvalde County where 20.05 in. fell during the 18.5-hour period 2:30 p.m. June 28 to 9:00 a.m. June 29.
1923 - A massive tornado hit Sandusky, OH, then swept across Lake Erie to strike the town of Lorain. The tornado killed 86 persons and caused twelve million dollars damage. The tornado outbreak that day was the worst of record for the state of Ohio up til that time. (David Ludlum)
1924 - An F4 tornado hit Sandusky, OH then moved eastward across Lake Erie to strike Lorain, OH. 15 of the 64 deaths at Lorain occurred in the State Theatre, where a silent film was being shown. The tune "Sacrifice" was being played on the piano when the twister struck. The tornado produced a massive wave on Lake Erie. 85 people were killed and total damage was $12.5 million dollars.
1954 - The record high temperature was set for the state of South Carolina. The temperature reached 111° at the town of Camden.
1957 - On this date through the 29th, the remnants of Hurricane Audrey combined with another area of low pressure over the Lower Lakes region and produced one of the worst June storms of record and established a new record low sea-level pressure of 29.04 inHg for the month of June. Heavy rains totaled 1.73 inches in 24 hours. The resulting gale on the 29th caused some of the worst damage to power lines in 30 years. One man was killed by a falling wire. Minor tree and crop damage resulted from the winds and rains.
In extreme east central Illinois, the town of Paris, in Edgar County, reported 10.20 inches of rainfall. This was a major contributor to a record June rainfall total of 17.65 inches, as well as a record year total of 61.59 inches. Weather records in Paris began in 1893.
1960 - Kentucky registered their record maximum 24-hour precipitation as 10.41 inches of rain fell at Dunmor.
1968 - Unseasonably heavy snow from the Cascades to the Northern Rockies, with 3 inches at Odell Lake, OR, and 2 inches at Mt. Rainier, WA through the 29th. Snow fell at Jackson, WY through the next day, with 8 inches at Mystic Lake, MT (elevation 6,558 feet). Some western Wyoming roads above 9,000 feet were closed for several hours.
1975 - Lee Trevino and two other golfers are struck by lightning at the Western Open golf tournament in Oak Brook, IL. (The Weather Channel)
1976 - The temperature reached 96° in Mayflower Park, Southampton England for the warmest temperature ever for the month of June in England.
1980 - The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX, soared to 117 degrees, their hottest reading of record. Daily highs were 110 degrees or above between the 24th of June and the 3rd of July. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the north central U.S. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced wind gusts to 70 mph and baseball size hail at Arapahoe, and wind gusts to 80 mph along with baseball size hail at Wolback and Belgrade. Six cities in the Ohio Valley reported record low temperatures for the date, including Cincinnati, OH, with a reading of 50 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Showers and thunderstorms brought much needed rains to parts of the central U.S. Madison, WI, received 1.67 inches of rain, a record for the date, and their first measurable rain since the Mother's Day tornado outbreak on the 8th of May. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Evening thunderstorms deluged Winnfield LA with eleven inches of rain in four hours and fifteen minutes, and Baton Rouge LA reported 11 inches of rain in two days. Totals in west central Louisiana ranged up to 17 inches.
Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Northern High Plains. Two inch hail broke windows in nearly every building at Comstock, NE. Thunderstorms in North Dakota produced two inch hail at Killdeer, and golf ball size hail at Zap. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms moved into northwestern Iowa with high winds and hail. Winds near 100 mph caused tremendous damage in the Everly area, snapping numerous power poles. 60 to 65 mph winds were very common with these storms across northwest Iowa. In O'Brien County, 3 inch diameter hail fell at Hospers and in Sioux County, 2 inch hail fell at Boyden. Some of the hail stones hit with such force that they punched through the roofs of houses in both Boyden and Hospers.
KDIO radio in Ortonville, MN clocked thunderstorm winds of 80 to 85 mph for several minutes as a thunderstorm passed. There were reports of numerous trees downed and scattered power outages in Ortonville.
1992 - Very heavy rains fell over southwest Florida as the result of a slow moving tropical depression. Up to 25 inches of rain fell in the Venice area during the four-day period beginning on the 25th ending on this date. 8 to 14 inches of rainfall was common over Sarasota and Manatee counties. The flooding killed two people.
1994 - Extremely hot temperatures prevailed from Texas to the Southwest. Laughlin, NV reached 124°, the state's all-time record high temperature. Monahans, TX reached 120° tying the state’s all-time temperature record. Other daily records included: Yuma, AZ: 116°, Tucson, AZ: 115°, Las Vegas, NV: 115°, Midland-Odessa, TX: 114°, El Paso, TX: 113°, San Angelo, TX: 110° and Del Rio, TX: 108°.
After a record temperature of 114° was set earlier in the day at the Midland International Airport in Texas, lightning from high-based thunderstorms started several grass, causing officials to close highways in the area. Over 2,000 acres of land were consumed by the fire.
1998 - Record breaking heat occurred across parts of the southern Plains. Amarillo, TX (recently broken, currently 6/26/2011: 111°) and Dodge City, KS both set their all-time record high temperatures with 108° and 110° respectively. Roswell, NM recorded a record daily high of 110°.
2003 - A damaging severe thunderstorm rolled in from the east into Liberal, KS. The combination of 80 to 100 mph wind and hail larger than golf balls produced at least $8 million dollars in damage. Flash flooding occurred following the devastating hail and wind storm. Nearly all streets in and around Liberal were flooded. Several cars were stranded.
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1788 - The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was 96 degrees in the shade, and there were more casualties from the heat than from bullets. (David Ludlum)
1865 - 24 people were killed by a tornado which cut a 40 mile swath through Southwest Wisconsin.
1892 - The temperature at Orogrande UT soared to 116 degrees to establish a record for the state. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
1913 - Rainfall was light to moderate along the southern Texas coast June 27-28 as a hurricane moved inland. Maximum recorded rainfall was 20.7 in. at Montell in Uvalde County where 20.05 in. fell during the 18.5-hour period 2:30 p.m. June 28 to 9:00 a.m. June 29.
1923 - A massive tornado hit Sandusky, OH, then swept across Lake Erie to strike the town of Lorain. The tornado killed 86 persons and caused twelve million dollars damage. The tornado outbreak that day was the worst of record for the state of Ohio up til that time. (David Ludlum)
1924 - An F4 tornado hit Sandusky, OH then moved eastward across Lake Erie to strike Lorain, OH. 15 of the 64 deaths at Lorain occurred in the State Theatre, where a silent film was being shown. The tune "Sacrifice" was being played on the piano when the twister struck. The tornado produced a massive wave on Lake Erie. 85 people were killed and total damage was $12.5 million dollars.
1954 - The record high temperature was set for the state of South Carolina. The temperature reached 111° at the town of Camden.
1957 - On this date through the 29th, the remnants of Hurricane Audrey combined with another area of low pressure over the Lower Lakes region and produced one of the worst June storms of record and established a new record low sea-level pressure of 29.04 inHg for the month of June. Heavy rains totaled 1.73 inches in 24 hours. The resulting gale on the 29th caused some of the worst damage to power lines in 30 years. One man was killed by a falling wire. Minor tree and crop damage resulted from the winds and rains.
In extreme east central Illinois, the town of Paris, in Edgar County, reported 10.20 inches of rainfall. This was a major contributor to a record June rainfall total of 17.65 inches, as well as a record year total of 61.59 inches. Weather records in Paris began in 1893.
1960 - Kentucky registered their record maximum 24-hour precipitation as 10.41 inches of rain fell at Dunmor.
1968 - Unseasonably heavy snow from the Cascades to the Northern Rockies, with 3 inches at Odell Lake, OR, and 2 inches at Mt. Rainier, WA through the 29th. Snow fell at Jackson, WY through the next day, with 8 inches at Mystic Lake, MT (elevation 6,558 feet). Some western Wyoming roads above 9,000 feet were closed for several hours.
1975 - Lee Trevino and two other golfers are struck by lightning at the Western Open golf tournament in Oak Brook, IL. (The Weather Channel)
1976 - The temperature reached 96° in Mayflower Park, Southampton England for the warmest temperature ever for the month of June in England.
1980 - The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX, soared to 117 degrees, their hottest reading of record. Daily highs were 110 degrees or above between the 24th of June and the 3rd of July. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the north central U.S. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced wind gusts to 70 mph and baseball size hail at Arapahoe, and wind gusts to 80 mph along with baseball size hail at Wolback and Belgrade. Six cities in the Ohio Valley reported record low temperatures for the date, including Cincinnati, OH, with a reading of 50 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Showers and thunderstorms brought much needed rains to parts of the central U.S. Madison, WI, received 1.67 inches of rain, a record for the date, and their first measurable rain since the Mother's Day tornado outbreak on the 8th of May. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Evening thunderstorms deluged Winnfield LA with eleven inches of rain in four hours and fifteen minutes, and Baton Rouge LA reported 11 inches of rain in two days. Totals in west central Louisiana ranged up to 17 inches.
Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Northern High Plains. Two inch hail broke windows in nearly every building at Comstock, NE. Thunderstorms in North Dakota produced two inch hail at Killdeer, and golf ball size hail at Zap. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms moved into northwestern Iowa with high winds and hail. Winds near 100 mph caused tremendous damage in the Everly area, snapping numerous power poles. 60 to 65 mph winds were very common with these storms across northwest Iowa. In O'Brien County, 3 inch diameter hail fell at Hospers and in Sioux County, 2 inch hail fell at Boyden. Some of the hail stones hit with such force that they punched through the roofs of houses in both Boyden and Hospers.
KDIO radio in Ortonville, MN clocked thunderstorm winds of 80 to 85 mph for several minutes as a thunderstorm passed. There were reports of numerous trees downed and scattered power outages in Ortonville.
1992 - Very heavy rains fell over southwest Florida as the result of a slow moving tropical depression. Up to 25 inches of rain fell in the Venice area during the four-day period beginning on the 25th ending on this date. 8 to 14 inches of rainfall was common over Sarasota and Manatee counties. The flooding killed two people.
1994 - Extremely hot temperatures prevailed from Texas to the Southwest. Laughlin, NV reached 124°, the state's all-time record high temperature. Monahans, TX reached 120° tying the state’s all-time temperature record. Other daily records included: Yuma, AZ: 116°, Tucson, AZ: 115°, Las Vegas, NV: 115°, Midland-Odessa, TX: 114°, El Paso, TX: 113°, San Angelo, TX: 110° and Del Rio, TX: 108°.
After a record temperature of 114° was set earlier in the day at the Midland International Airport in Texas, lightning from high-based thunderstorms started several grass, causing officials to close highways in the area. Over 2,000 acres of land were consumed by the fire.
1998 - Record breaking heat occurred across parts of the southern Plains. Amarillo, TX (recently broken, currently 6/26/2011: 111°) and Dodge City, KS both set their all-time record high temperatures with 108° and 110° respectively. Roswell, NM recorded a record daily high of 110°.
2003 - A damaging severe thunderstorm rolled in from the east into Liberal, KS. The combination of 80 to 100 mph wind and hail larger than golf balls produced at least $8 million dollars in damage. Flash flooding occurred following the devastating hail and wind storm. Nearly all streets in and around Liberal were flooded. Several cars were stranded.
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For July 18th
1889 - A cloudburst in West Virginia along the small creeks in Wirt County, Jackson County and Wood County claimed twenty lives. Rockport, WV, reported nineteen inches of rain in two hours and ten minutes that Thursday evening. Tygart Creek rose 22 feet in one hour, and villages were swept away on Tygart, Slate, Tucker, and Sandy Creeks. (The Weather Channel)
1919 - Excessive and damaging local rains occurred in parts of Cooke County on the 19th, Travis County on the 21st, and DeWitt County on the 23rd. Small streams were flooded by these rains and the damage to roads, bridges, crops, and soil was estimated at over $2 million.
1936 - This day marked the end of the hottest period on record for La Crosse, WI. From the 5th through the 18th, temperatures climbed to 90° or better everyday, and at or above 100° eight times. During this time six record temperatures were set and the average high temperatures for the period was 101.0°.
1941 - Fort Smith, Northwest Territories Canada reported the territories hottest temperature on record as they reached 103°.
1942 - A record deluge occurred at Smethport in northern Pennsylvania, with 30.7 inches in just six hours. The downpours and resultant flooding in Pennsylvania were devastating. The following U.S. records were set at Smethport: rainfall in three hours: 28.50 inches, rainfall in 4 hours and 30 minutes: 30.70 inches and 12-hour rainfall: 34.30 inches.
1955 - The United Kingdom's wettest day on record occurred as 10.99 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Martinstown, Dorset. Two people were killed.
1970 - A tropical depression formed east of the Yucatan Peninsula. As the system developed into Tropical Storm Becky, it provided National Hurricane Center forecasters their first opportunity to study the evolution of a tropical cyclone with the aid of time-lapse movies of ATS (Applications Technology Satellite) photographs in real time, or, The Movie Loop. Becky moved into the Florida panhandle as a tropical storm.
1972 - Heavy rain, unofficially measured at 10 to 11 inches, fell in the Mooreland and Mutual areas of Woodward County Oklahoma. The heavy rain caused severe soil erosion, but crop damage was minimal, as wheat already had been harvested.
1986 - One of the most photo-genic tornadoes touched down in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis, MN, during the late afternoon. The very slow moving tornado actually appeared live on the evening news by way of an aerial video taken by the KARE-TV helicopter crew. The tornado, unlike most, was quite the prima donna, staying visible to tens of thousands of persons for thirty minutes. It was moderate in intensity, with winds of 113-157 mph, and caused 650 thousand dollars damage. (Storm Data)
1987 - Cool weather prevailed in the western U.S. Seven cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Alamosa, CO, with a reading of 38 degrees. The low of 52 degrees at Bakersfield, CA, was a record for July. Up to eight inches of snow covered the Northern Sierra Nevada Range of California from a storm the previous day. During that storm, winds gusting to 52 mph at Slide Mountain, NV, produced a wind chill reading of 20 degrees below zero. Susanville, CA, reached 17 degrees that previous day, Blue Canyon, CA, dipped to a July record of 36 degrees, and the high of 44 degrees at Klamath Falls, OR, smashed their previous record for July by ten degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Sweltering heat continued in California, with record highs of 111 degrees at Redding and 112 degrees at Sacramento. Death Valley, CA, hit 127 degrees. Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the Central Plains Region produced baseball size hail at Kimball, NE, wind gusts to 79 mph at Colby, KS, and six inches of rain near Lexington, NE. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Oklahoma, northern Texas and Arkansas during the afternoon, and into the night. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail at Stamford, TX, and wind gusts to 92 mph near Throckmorton, TX. Record heat continued in the southwestern U.S. Phoenix AZ reported a record high of 115 degrees, and a 111 degree reading at Midland, TX, was second only to their all-time record high of 112 degrees established sixteen days earlier. (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - Approximately 580 square miles of trees were toppled by winds in excess of 110 mph at the Pukwash Forest, Northwest Territories Canada, but there was no evidence of any tornadic activity. The damage path was roughly 12.5 miles wide and 47 miles long.
1992 - On this date through the 18th, Thunderstorms crossed Wayne County in western New York State dumping heavy rains over already saturated grounds and swollen streams. Rainfall amounts exceeded six inches in two hours on the 17th. Three homes were severely damaged in Marion and Sodus as basements filled with water. In some places, mudslides occurred and the shoulders of roads had been washed away. Also, thousands of dollars worth of potato and onion crops were ruined.
1993 - In south central Kansas, heavy rains in and around Stafford County caused flooding of the normally dry Antelope Creek. Flooding of roads and streets began in Radium during the morning hours. Some sandbagging was done in the town. After 4 pm the Antelope Creek overflowed its banks and contributed to more flooding in the Radium area. The flooding continued until the morning hours on the 19th. Basements were filled with water in some homes. This was the worst flooding in Radium since the spring of 1973. Flooding continued until about 9 am on the 19th. Large areas of the Quivira Waterfowl Refuge were flooded also.
1994 - A monsoonal flow fueled scattered severe thunderstorms over southern Clark County, Nevada. The thunderstorms produced strong winds and heavy rain in Pahrump, Overton, Henderson, Nellis Air Force Base, and Las Vegas. The strongest wind gust of 78 mph was at Nellis Air Force Base and was also the fastest wind speed ever recorded at that site. Numerous structures were damaged in Henderson, Pahrump, and the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Several small airplanes were damaged at local airports, with one plane totally destroyed. A $4 million dollars sign belonging to the Las Vegas Hilton was destroyed. At the time, the Las Vegas Hilton sign was billed as the world’s tallest free-standing sign at 362 feet. Debris from the sign fell on several cars, causing some damage, but no injuries. However, flying debris from broken windows and damaged structures did cause numerous minor injuries throughout the Las Vegas metropolitan area. 200,000 people were without power after the storm, some for over 48 hours.
1996 - An F5 tornado struck Oakfield, WI during the evening, injuring 17 people and destroying 47 of the 320 homes in the town. Damage estimates totaled over $40 million dollars. In addition, 56 homes as well as numerous businesses and churches sustained heavy damage.
A massive rainstorm in north central and northeast Illinois led to widespread flooding. Aurora reported 16.91 inches of rain, establishing a state record for the most rain in a single day. Other heavy totals included 13.60 inches at Joliet, 9.24 inches in Wheaton, 8.09 inches in DeKalb, and 7.82 inches at Elgin.
On this date through the 21st, Canada endured its first billion dollar disaster as torrential rains and floods triggered a surge of water, trees, rocks and mud that killed 10 people and forced 12,000 residents to evacuate in the Saguenay River Valley in Quebec.
1997 - Hurricane warnings were posted along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Alabama as Hurricane Danny headed toward shore, first brushing southeastern Louisiana where tropical storm force winds and high tides caused severe erosion. Grand Isle, LA recorded a wind gust to 95 mph shortly before midnight. 100 mph winds and torrential rains, downed power lines, damaged or sunk boats and left flooding in its wake.
Thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong cold front and brought high winds and large hail to the western southern tier, Niagara frontier and Genesee Valley in western New York State. The high winds downed trees and power lines and caused minor structural damage. A 74 mph gust was recorded in Orchard Park. Hail, as large as golfballs, damaged crops in Niagara and Orleans counties. Crops affected included apples, peaches, pears and cherries. Several fires were reported as a result of lightning strikes. The heavy rains that accompanied the storms resulted in minor urban flooding.
1998 - Edwards Air Force Base in California set their all-time record high of 115°.
2003 - Miles City, MT set their all-time high temperature record with 113°. Highs of 100° or higher occurred 6 times between the 12th through the 19th.
2006 - A heat wave across Europe sent temperatures at Bordeaux, France to 102°.
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1889 - A cloudburst in West Virginia along the small creeks in Wirt County, Jackson County and Wood County claimed twenty lives. Rockport, WV, reported nineteen inches of rain in two hours and ten minutes that Thursday evening. Tygart Creek rose 22 feet in one hour, and villages were swept away on Tygart, Slate, Tucker, and Sandy Creeks. (The Weather Channel)
1919 - Excessive and damaging local rains occurred in parts of Cooke County on the 19th, Travis County on the 21st, and DeWitt County on the 23rd. Small streams were flooded by these rains and the damage to roads, bridges, crops, and soil was estimated at over $2 million.
1936 - This day marked the end of the hottest period on record for La Crosse, WI. From the 5th through the 18th, temperatures climbed to 90° or better everyday, and at or above 100° eight times. During this time six record temperatures were set and the average high temperatures for the period was 101.0°.
1941 - Fort Smith, Northwest Territories Canada reported the territories hottest temperature on record as they reached 103°.
1942 - A record deluge occurred at Smethport in northern Pennsylvania, with 30.7 inches in just six hours. The downpours and resultant flooding in Pennsylvania were devastating. The following U.S. records were set at Smethport: rainfall in three hours: 28.50 inches, rainfall in 4 hours and 30 minutes: 30.70 inches and 12-hour rainfall: 34.30 inches.
1955 - The United Kingdom's wettest day on record occurred as 10.99 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Martinstown, Dorset. Two people were killed.
1970 - A tropical depression formed east of the Yucatan Peninsula. As the system developed into Tropical Storm Becky, it provided National Hurricane Center forecasters their first opportunity to study the evolution of a tropical cyclone with the aid of time-lapse movies of ATS (Applications Technology Satellite) photographs in real time, or, The Movie Loop. Becky moved into the Florida panhandle as a tropical storm.
1972 - Heavy rain, unofficially measured at 10 to 11 inches, fell in the Mooreland and Mutual areas of Woodward County Oklahoma. The heavy rain caused severe soil erosion, but crop damage was minimal, as wheat already had been harvested.
1986 - One of the most photo-genic tornadoes touched down in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis, MN, during the late afternoon. The very slow moving tornado actually appeared live on the evening news by way of an aerial video taken by the KARE-TV helicopter crew. The tornado, unlike most, was quite the prima donna, staying visible to tens of thousands of persons for thirty minutes. It was moderate in intensity, with winds of 113-157 mph, and caused 650 thousand dollars damage. (Storm Data)
1987 - Cool weather prevailed in the western U.S. Seven cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Alamosa, CO, with a reading of 38 degrees. The low of 52 degrees at Bakersfield, CA, was a record for July. Up to eight inches of snow covered the Northern Sierra Nevada Range of California from a storm the previous day. During that storm, winds gusting to 52 mph at Slide Mountain, NV, produced a wind chill reading of 20 degrees below zero. Susanville, CA, reached 17 degrees that previous day, Blue Canyon, CA, dipped to a July record of 36 degrees, and the high of 44 degrees at Klamath Falls, OR, smashed their previous record for July by ten degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Sweltering heat continued in California, with record highs of 111 degrees at Redding and 112 degrees at Sacramento. Death Valley, CA, hit 127 degrees. Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the Central Plains Region produced baseball size hail at Kimball, NE, wind gusts to 79 mph at Colby, KS, and six inches of rain near Lexington, NE. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Oklahoma, northern Texas and Arkansas during the afternoon, and into the night. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail at Stamford, TX, and wind gusts to 92 mph near Throckmorton, TX. Record heat continued in the southwestern U.S. Phoenix AZ reported a record high of 115 degrees, and a 111 degree reading at Midland, TX, was second only to their all-time record high of 112 degrees established sixteen days earlier. (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - Approximately 580 square miles of trees were toppled by winds in excess of 110 mph at the Pukwash Forest, Northwest Territories Canada, but there was no evidence of any tornadic activity. The damage path was roughly 12.5 miles wide and 47 miles long.
1992 - On this date through the 18th, Thunderstorms crossed Wayne County in western New York State dumping heavy rains over already saturated grounds and swollen streams. Rainfall amounts exceeded six inches in two hours on the 17th. Three homes were severely damaged in Marion and Sodus as basements filled with water. In some places, mudslides occurred and the shoulders of roads had been washed away. Also, thousands of dollars worth of potato and onion crops were ruined.
1993 - In south central Kansas, heavy rains in and around Stafford County caused flooding of the normally dry Antelope Creek. Flooding of roads and streets began in Radium during the morning hours. Some sandbagging was done in the town. After 4 pm the Antelope Creek overflowed its banks and contributed to more flooding in the Radium area. The flooding continued until the morning hours on the 19th. Basements were filled with water in some homes. This was the worst flooding in Radium since the spring of 1973. Flooding continued until about 9 am on the 19th. Large areas of the Quivira Waterfowl Refuge were flooded also.
1994 - A monsoonal flow fueled scattered severe thunderstorms over southern Clark County, Nevada. The thunderstorms produced strong winds and heavy rain in Pahrump, Overton, Henderson, Nellis Air Force Base, and Las Vegas. The strongest wind gust of 78 mph was at Nellis Air Force Base and was also the fastest wind speed ever recorded at that site. Numerous structures were damaged in Henderson, Pahrump, and the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Several small airplanes were damaged at local airports, with one plane totally destroyed. A $4 million dollars sign belonging to the Las Vegas Hilton was destroyed. At the time, the Las Vegas Hilton sign was billed as the world’s tallest free-standing sign at 362 feet. Debris from the sign fell on several cars, causing some damage, but no injuries. However, flying debris from broken windows and damaged structures did cause numerous minor injuries throughout the Las Vegas metropolitan area. 200,000 people were without power after the storm, some for over 48 hours.
1996 - An F5 tornado struck Oakfield, WI during the evening, injuring 17 people and destroying 47 of the 320 homes in the town. Damage estimates totaled over $40 million dollars. In addition, 56 homes as well as numerous businesses and churches sustained heavy damage.
A massive rainstorm in north central and northeast Illinois led to widespread flooding. Aurora reported 16.91 inches of rain, establishing a state record for the most rain in a single day. Other heavy totals included 13.60 inches at Joliet, 9.24 inches in Wheaton, 8.09 inches in DeKalb, and 7.82 inches at Elgin.
On this date through the 21st, Canada endured its first billion dollar disaster as torrential rains and floods triggered a surge of water, trees, rocks and mud that killed 10 people and forced 12,000 residents to evacuate in the Saguenay River Valley in Quebec.
1997 - Hurricane warnings were posted along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Alabama as Hurricane Danny headed toward shore, first brushing southeastern Louisiana where tropical storm force winds and high tides caused severe erosion. Grand Isle, LA recorded a wind gust to 95 mph shortly before midnight. 100 mph winds and torrential rains, downed power lines, damaged or sunk boats and left flooding in its wake.
Thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong cold front and brought high winds and large hail to the western southern tier, Niagara frontier and Genesee Valley in western New York State. The high winds downed trees and power lines and caused minor structural damage. A 74 mph gust was recorded in Orchard Park. Hail, as large as golfballs, damaged crops in Niagara and Orleans counties. Crops affected included apples, peaches, pears and cherries. Several fires were reported as a result of lightning strikes. The heavy rains that accompanied the storms resulted in minor urban flooding.
1998 - Edwards Air Force Base in California set their all-time record high of 115°.
2003 - Miles City, MT set their all-time high temperature record with 113°. Highs of 100° or higher occurred 6 times between the 12th through the 19th.
2006 - A heat wave across Europe sent temperatures at Bordeaux, France to 102°.
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For July 20th
1902 - Rainfall depths up to 17 in. over much of the State causing flooding throughout Texas.
1913 - 40.73 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Funkiko, Japan.
1915 - An all-time record high temperature of 115° was set at Yosemite Valley at the National Park Headquarters, California (around 4,000 feet elevation). This was the warmest day in a streak of 7 consecutive days of 110° or higher at Yosemite Valley from the 19th through the 25th.
1919 - Ontario Canada's hottest day on record occurred as the town of Biscotasing soared to 108°.
1921 - Montana registered its record maximum 24 hour precipitation as 11.50 inches of rain fell at Circle.
1930 - The temperature at Washington D.C. soared to an all-time record of 106 degrees. The next day Millsboro reached 110 degrees to set a record for the state of Delaware. July 1930 was one of the hottest and driest summers in the U.S., particularly in the Missouri Valley where severe drought conditions developed. Toward the end of the month state records were set for Kentucky with 114 degrees, and Mississippi with 115 degrees. (David Ludlum)
1934 - The temperature at Keokuk, IA, soared to 118 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1946 - The temperature at Medford, OR soared to an all-time high of 115° to begin a two week heat wave. During that Oregon heat wave the mercury hit 100° at Sexton Summit for the only time in 40 years of records.
1953 - Twenty-two inches of hail reportedly fell northeast of Dickinson, ND. (The Weather Channel)
1965 - 18.18 inches of rain at Edgarton set Missouri’s 24 hour rainfall record.
1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong is the first human to set foot on the Moon. His first quote is “That’s one small step for a man.”
1973 - Nunavut Canada's hottest day on record occurred as the town of Arviat hit 93°.
1976 - South Australia recorded their coldest night on record as Yongala dropped to 17°.
1986 - The temperature at Charleston, SC, hit 104 degrees for the second day in a row to tie their all-time record high. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 87 mph at Mosinee, WI, and strong thunderstorm winds capsized twenty-six boats on Grand Traverse Bay drowning two women. Thunderstorms produced nine inches of rain at Shakopee, MN, with 7.83 inches reported in six hours at Chaska, MN. Thunderstorms in north central Nebraska produced hail as large as golf balls in southwestern Cherry County, which accumulated to a depth of 12 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The temperature at Redding, CA, soared to an all-time record high of 118 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms produced much needed rains from New England to southern Texas. Salem, IN, was deluged with 7.2 inches of rain resulting in flash flooding. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Showers and thunderstorms in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region soaked Wilmington, DE, with 2.28 inches of rain, pushing their total for the period May through July past the previous record of 22.43 inches. Heavy rain over that three month period virtually wiped out a 16.82 inch deficit which had been building since drought conditions began in 1985. Thunderstorms in central Indiana deluged Lebanon with 6.50 inches of rain in twelve hours, and thunderstorms over Florida produced wind gusts to 84 mph at Flagler Beach. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1993 - Heavy rains caused flash flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota. 2.5 inches of rain fell within 30 minutes causing flash flooding in the Lead/Deadwood area and the northern Black Hills. Rocks and mud were washed across roads and highways as creeks overflowed. Several businesses in Lead reported water damage and, at least, a dozen homes had flooded basements. The rapid runoff from the rains also caused numerous mudslides. The mudslides were as deep as three feet on area highways and even washed out a few roads.
1994 - Seattle, WA recorded their hottest day ever at 100°.
1997 - 32.54 inches of rain fell at Dauphin Island Sea Lab during the slow passage of Hurricane Danny. This set Alabama’s record 24-hour maximum precipitation record. In total 36.74 inches of rain was dumped by Danny, 26 inches of which fell in just 7 hours the previous day.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms moved into the Las Vegas Valley and nearby Lake Mead in Nevada bringing wind gusts in excess of 60 mph and heavy showers which dumped between 1.50 and 2.25 inches of rain overnight. Several marinas on Lake Mead suffered extensive wind damage and numerous roads were washed out. In the Las Vegas Valley, heavy rain and flooding produced the majority of damage. Major flooding began during the early morning hours and kept washes filled for several hours with numerous swift water rescues performed during the period. Rapidly accumulating water and a clogged drainage system caused the roof of the Palace Station Hotel and Casino to collapse, causing millions of dollars in damage. A few hours later, the same hotel and casino caught fire when it was struck by lightning.
2004 - Two New Mexico State Police officers were struck by lightning in Portales while helping motorists on a flooded road during a thunderstorm.
A heat wave reached its peak at Tokyo, Japan as the daily temperature soared to 103°, the hottest day since official records began being kept in 1923.
In Kiskunhalas, Hungary, the temperature soared to a record 107°.
2005 - Hurricane Emily made landfall in northern Mexico. When the central pressure fell to 929 millibars and its sustained winds reached 160 mph on the 16th, Emily became the strongest hurricane ever to form before August, breaking a record set by Hurricane Dennis just six days before. It was also the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin (beating Hurricane Allen's old record by nearly three weeks) and the only Category 5 hurricane ever recorded before August.
2007 - A tornado ravaged the southern Poland city of Czestochowa, ripping the roofs off farmhouses and destroying cars.
2008 - A rare early morning thunderstorm hit the Coachella Valley in California. In Cathedral City, 1.25 inches fell in just 30 minutes. 15 to 20 businesses and several homes were damaged.
2012 - A gunman attacks Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado during the premier of The Dark Knight Rises. Once it was all over, 12 people lost their life and gunman was arrested. He awaits trial in 2014.
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1902 - Rainfall depths up to 17 in. over much of the State causing flooding throughout Texas.
1913 - 40.73 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Funkiko, Japan.
1915 - An all-time record high temperature of 115° was set at Yosemite Valley at the National Park Headquarters, California (around 4,000 feet elevation). This was the warmest day in a streak of 7 consecutive days of 110° or higher at Yosemite Valley from the 19th through the 25th.
1919 - Ontario Canada's hottest day on record occurred as the town of Biscotasing soared to 108°.
1921 - Montana registered its record maximum 24 hour precipitation as 11.50 inches of rain fell at Circle.
1930 - The temperature at Washington D.C. soared to an all-time record of 106 degrees. The next day Millsboro reached 110 degrees to set a record for the state of Delaware. July 1930 was one of the hottest and driest summers in the U.S., particularly in the Missouri Valley where severe drought conditions developed. Toward the end of the month state records were set for Kentucky with 114 degrees, and Mississippi with 115 degrees. (David Ludlum)
1934 - The temperature at Keokuk, IA, soared to 118 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1946 - The temperature at Medford, OR soared to an all-time high of 115° to begin a two week heat wave. During that Oregon heat wave the mercury hit 100° at Sexton Summit for the only time in 40 years of records.
1953 - Twenty-two inches of hail reportedly fell northeast of Dickinson, ND. (The Weather Channel)
1965 - 18.18 inches of rain at Edgarton set Missouri’s 24 hour rainfall record.
1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong is the first human to set foot on the Moon. His first quote is “That’s one small step for a man.”
1973 - Nunavut Canada's hottest day on record occurred as the town of Arviat hit 93°.
1976 - South Australia recorded their coldest night on record as Yongala dropped to 17°.
1986 - The temperature at Charleston, SC, hit 104 degrees for the second day in a row to tie their all-time record high. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 87 mph at Mosinee, WI, and strong thunderstorm winds capsized twenty-six boats on Grand Traverse Bay drowning two women. Thunderstorms produced nine inches of rain at Shakopee, MN, with 7.83 inches reported in six hours at Chaska, MN. Thunderstorms in north central Nebraska produced hail as large as golf balls in southwestern Cherry County, which accumulated to a depth of 12 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The temperature at Redding, CA, soared to an all-time record high of 118 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms produced much needed rains from New England to southern Texas. Salem, IN, was deluged with 7.2 inches of rain resulting in flash flooding. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Showers and thunderstorms in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region soaked Wilmington, DE, with 2.28 inches of rain, pushing their total for the period May through July past the previous record of 22.43 inches. Heavy rain over that three month period virtually wiped out a 16.82 inch deficit which had been building since drought conditions began in 1985. Thunderstorms in central Indiana deluged Lebanon with 6.50 inches of rain in twelve hours, and thunderstorms over Florida produced wind gusts to 84 mph at Flagler Beach. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1993 - Heavy rains caused flash flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota. 2.5 inches of rain fell within 30 minutes causing flash flooding in the Lead/Deadwood area and the northern Black Hills. Rocks and mud were washed across roads and highways as creeks overflowed. Several businesses in Lead reported water damage and, at least, a dozen homes had flooded basements. The rapid runoff from the rains also caused numerous mudslides. The mudslides were as deep as three feet on area highways and even washed out a few roads.
1994 - Seattle, WA recorded their hottest day ever at 100°.
1997 - 32.54 inches of rain fell at Dauphin Island Sea Lab during the slow passage of Hurricane Danny. This set Alabama’s record 24-hour maximum precipitation record. In total 36.74 inches of rain was dumped by Danny, 26 inches of which fell in just 7 hours the previous day.
1998 - Severe thunderstorms moved into the Las Vegas Valley and nearby Lake Mead in Nevada bringing wind gusts in excess of 60 mph and heavy showers which dumped between 1.50 and 2.25 inches of rain overnight. Several marinas on Lake Mead suffered extensive wind damage and numerous roads were washed out. In the Las Vegas Valley, heavy rain and flooding produced the majority of damage. Major flooding began during the early morning hours and kept washes filled for several hours with numerous swift water rescues performed during the period. Rapidly accumulating water and a clogged drainage system caused the roof of the Palace Station Hotel and Casino to collapse, causing millions of dollars in damage. A few hours later, the same hotel and casino caught fire when it was struck by lightning.
2004 - Two New Mexico State Police officers were struck by lightning in Portales while helping motorists on a flooded road during a thunderstorm.
A heat wave reached its peak at Tokyo, Japan as the daily temperature soared to 103°, the hottest day since official records began being kept in 1923.
In Kiskunhalas, Hungary, the temperature soared to a record 107°.
2005 - Hurricane Emily made landfall in northern Mexico. When the central pressure fell to 929 millibars and its sustained winds reached 160 mph on the 16th, Emily became the strongest hurricane ever to form before August, breaking a record set by Hurricane Dennis just six days before. It was also the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin (beating Hurricane Allen's old record by nearly three weeks) and the only Category 5 hurricane ever recorded before August.
2007 - A tornado ravaged the southern Poland city of Czestochowa, ripping the roofs off farmhouses and destroying cars.
2008 - A rare early morning thunderstorm hit the Coachella Valley in California. In Cathedral City, 1.25 inches fell in just 30 minutes. 15 to 20 businesses and several homes were damaged.
2012 - A gunman attacks Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado during the premier of The Dark Knight Rises. Once it was all over, 12 people lost their life and gunman was arrested. He awaits trial in 2014.
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For July 22nd
1918 - A single bolt of lightning struck 504 sheep dead in their tracks at the Wasatch National Forest in Utah. Sheep often herd together in storms, and as a result the shock from the lightning bolt was passed from one animal to another. (David Ludlum)
1920 - A powerful tornado destroyed farm property near Alameda, Saskatchewan Canada. The winds reportedly stripped the hair off 16 horses and tossed a 1,984 lb stallion about 1,000 yards.
1926 - Troy recorded New York's hottest temperature ever as the mercury soared to 108°. It was also 105° at Waterbury to establish the state record high for Connecticut at that time. This record was broken on 7/15/1995.
1956 - Las Vegas, NV was plagued by power outages, flooded streets, skidding autos and screaming sirens as thunderstorms hit the city and surrounding areas. The heavy downpour covered the entire Las Vegas Valley. Power outages hit various sections of the city as lines were blown down by strong winds. Las Vegas residents became alarmed when air raid sirens atop the County Courthouse began blaring away at the height of the storm. The siren was touched off by a short circuit in the alarm system caused by the rain.
1959 - Two one-hundredths of an inch of rain was recorded ending a streak of 150 days with no measurable precipitation at Las Vegas, NV.
1972 - Minnesota registered their record maximum 24 hour precipitation as 10.84 inches of rain fell at Fort Ripley.
1982 - Laramie, WY equaled their record warmest temperature on record with 94° (8/5/1979 and 6/23/1954).
1986 - Hurricane Estelle passed 120 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands creating a ten to twenty foot surf. The large swells resulted from a combination of high tides, a full moon, and 50 mph winds. The hurricane also deluged Oahu Island with as much as 6.86 inches of rain on the 24th and 25th of the month. (Storm Data)
1987 - Barrow, AK, receives 1.38 inches in 24 hours on the 21st and 22nd, an all-time record for that location. The average annual precipitation for Barrow is just 4.75 inches. Thunderstorms in Montana produced 4 to 6 inches of rain in Glacier County causing extensive flooding along Divide Creek. Missoula, MT, received 1.71 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the month of July. (The National Weather Summary) (The Weather Channel)
1988 - Six cities in the south central U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Pueblo, CO, with a reading of 48 degrees. Thunderstorms over the Atlantic Coast Region drenched Wilmington, NC, with 6.49 inches of rain in about eight hours. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Showers and thunderstorms prevailed across the southeastern third of the country. Afternoon thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 86 mph at Zephyrhills, and gusts to 92 mph at Carrollwood and Lutz. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 69 mph at Crystal Lake damaged nineteen mobile homes. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
2006 - A major heat wave with humidity, in some ways unprecedented, hit Southern California. It was 121° in Palm Springs, 120° at Indio and Thermal, 114° at Ontario and 113° at El Cajon. It was 112° at Escondido and 109° in La Mesa; both were record highs.
2011 - A bomb explodes in front of government buildings in Oslo, Norway, claiming 8 lives. Than the gunman attacks Utoya Island and kills 69 people claiming a total of 77 lives.
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1918 - A single bolt of lightning struck 504 sheep dead in their tracks at the Wasatch National Forest in Utah. Sheep often herd together in storms, and as a result the shock from the lightning bolt was passed from one animal to another. (David Ludlum)
1920 - A powerful tornado destroyed farm property near Alameda, Saskatchewan Canada. The winds reportedly stripped the hair off 16 horses and tossed a 1,984 lb stallion about 1,000 yards.
1926 - Troy recorded New York's hottest temperature ever as the mercury soared to 108°. It was also 105° at Waterbury to establish the state record high for Connecticut at that time. This record was broken on 7/15/1995.
1956 - Las Vegas, NV was plagued by power outages, flooded streets, skidding autos and screaming sirens as thunderstorms hit the city and surrounding areas. The heavy downpour covered the entire Las Vegas Valley. Power outages hit various sections of the city as lines were blown down by strong winds. Las Vegas residents became alarmed when air raid sirens atop the County Courthouse began blaring away at the height of the storm. The siren was touched off by a short circuit in the alarm system caused by the rain.
1959 - Two one-hundredths of an inch of rain was recorded ending a streak of 150 days with no measurable precipitation at Las Vegas, NV.
1972 - Minnesota registered their record maximum 24 hour precipitation as 10.84 inches of rain fell at Fort Ripley.
1982 - Laramie, WY equaled their record warmest temperature on record with 94° (8/5/1979 and 6/23/1954).
1986 - Hurricane Estelle passed 120 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands creating a ten to twenty foot surf. The large swells resulted from a combination of high tides, a full moon, and 50 mph winds. The hurricane also deluged Oahu Island with as much as 6.86 inches of rain on the 24th and 25th of the month. (Storm Data)
1987 - Barrow, AK, receives 1.38 inches in 24 hours on the 21st and 22nd, an all-time record for that location. The average annual precipitation for Barrow is just 4.75 inches. Thunderstorms in Montana produced 4 to 6 inches of rain in Glacier County causing extensive flooding along Divide Creek. Missoula, MT, received 1.71 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the month of July. (The National Weather Summary) (The Weather Channel)
1988 - Six cities in the south central U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Pueblo, CO, with a reading of 48 degrees. Thunderstorms over the Atlantic Coast Region drenched Wilmington, NC, with 6.49 inches of rain in about eight hours. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Showers and thunderstorms prevailed across the southeastern third of the country. Afternoon thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 86 mph at Zephyrhills, and gusts to 92 mph at Carrollwood and Lutz. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 69 mph at Crystal Lake damaged nineteen mobile homes. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
2006 - A major heat wave with humidity, in some ways unprecedented, hit Southern California. It was 121° in Palm Springs, 120° at Indio and Thermal, 114° at Ontario and 113° at El Cajon. It was 112° at Escondido and 109° in La Mesa; both were record highs.
2011 - A bomb explodes in front of government buildings in Oslo, Norway, claiming 8 lives. Than the gunman attacks Utoya Island and kills 69 people claiming a total of 77 lives.
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For July 25th
1609 - The Jamestown expedition nearly came to an untimely end as the fleet of ships encountered a tropical storm while sailing northwest through the Bahamas. One of the nine ships sunk and the rest of the fleet scattered as far north as Bermuda.
1891 - The mercury hit 109 degrees at Los Angeles, CA, marking the peak of a torrid heat wave. (David Ludlum)
1933 - Japan's hottest temperature on record occurred as the city of Yamagata hit 105°.
1936 - Lincoln, NE set an all-time record high temperature with 115°. The overnight low only dropped to 91°. Omaha, NE set their all-time record high of 114°.
1952 - The State of Alabama was in the midst of a critical heat wave and drought. During an 8-day stretch, the "coolest" high temperature in Birmingham was 99°. The heat peaked on this date at 106°. This was just one degree short of the highest temperature ever recorded at Birmingham. During that heat wave and drought, some wells in Alabama went dry for the very first time.
1956 - The Andrea Doria sank in dense fog near Nantucket Lightship, MA. The ship was rammed by the Swedish-American liner, Stockholm, forty-five miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Fifty-two persons drowned, or were killed by the impact. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1979 - Tropical Storm Claudette formed in the central Atlantic the morning of July 15, 1979. It never reached hurricane intensity as it wandered across the northern Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico 10 days, making landfall near Port Arthur the evening of the 24th.
The storm veered left and stalled over Alvin the evening/early morning hours of the 25th/26th. This was a weak tropical storm and went through the "Core Rain" phase during that period. An observer 3.2 mi northwest of Alvin reported 8.0 in. during 4 hrs - 19.0 in. during 9 hrs, 30 minutes - 32.25 in. during 13 hrs, 47 minutes - 42.0 in. during 19 hrs - and a storm total of 45.0 in. during 42 hrs ending at 6 AM July 27th.
1984 - Severe thunderstorms moved from Corson County in north central South Dakota to Tripp County in the south central part of the state. The hardest hit area was the state capital of Pierre. Winds gusting to 83 mph demolished 13 planes and several hangers at the Pierre airport. In town, a home and three businesses lost their roofs and a trailer was destroyed. The thunderstorm also produced very heavy rains as 4 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes flooding streets across town. Winds in excess of 70 mph caused crop and property damage in many areas across central South Dakota.
1986 - Tremendous hailstones pounded parts of South Dakota damaging crops, buildings and vehicles. Hail piled two feet deep at Black Hawk and northern Rapid City. Hail an inch and a quarter in diameter fell for 85 minutes near Miller and Huron, piling up to depths of two feet. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Sixteen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Beckley, WV, equalled their all-time record high of 91 degrees, established just the previous day. It marked their fourth day in a row of 90 degree heat, after hitting 90 degrees just twice in the previous 25 years of records. The water temperature of Lake Erie at Buffalo, NY, reached 79 degrees, the warmest reading in 52 years of records. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from central Kansas to western Kentucky and southern Illinois during the day. Thunderstorms produced tennis ball size hail at Union, MO, and winds gusts to 65 mph at Sedalia, MO. Five cities in Washington and Oregon reported record high temperatures for the date. Medford, OR, hit 107 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Early afternoon thunderstorms over west central Missouri drenched the town of Ferguson with four inches of rain. Early evening thunderstorms in Pennsylvania produced more than two inches of rain north of Avella in one hour. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Intense, slow-moving thunderstorms, dumped up to 11 inches of rain in just 6 hours at Lawton, OK. The flash flooding closed many roads, and 50 to 60 motorists had to be rescued when they became stranded in the high water.
1992 - Grapefruit sized hail knocked windshields out of several cars about 9.5 miles northeast of Scott City, KS.
1993 - Lake Kampeska, near Watertown, SD reached near record level at 37 inches over full mark due to runoff from heavy rains in previous days. Dozens of homes and two businesses were flooded out. About 100,000 sandbags were distributed to help prevent more flood damage to lakeside property owners.
1994 - Hurricane Gilma, like Emilia a week earlier, reached Category 5 strength in the Eastern Pacific Basin. Amazing considering up to that time, only four other category 5 storms were observed dating back to 1949.
1996 - Street Flooding was observed in Crockett (Houston County). Three cars were swept off Highway 21. Highway 7 was barricaded due to high water. Total damage was around $10,000.
1998 - Thunderous rains unleashed dangerous flash flooding from northeast Kansas through central Missouri during the overnight hours. Kansas City was especially hard hit with the suburb of Independence reporting 6.5 inches of rain, most of it falling in a matter of a few hours. Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain over parts of Banner and Cheyenne counties of the Nebraska panhandle, with local amounts around 4.5 inches. This produced flash flooding which closed some county roads, and put 6 to 18 inches of water on some streets in Sidney, NE.
2000 - An F4 tornado at Granite Falls, MN caused one fatality and $20 million dollars in damage.
2003 - Lightning struck a home during an overnight thunderstorm southwest of Oslo, Norway. The charge moved into the bedroom and through an iron bed, as a Norwegian couple was sleeping on it. The couple was unharmed, but the lightning strike burned out all of the electric sockets.
2004 - It was an unseasonably cool summer day across Oklahoma and western north Texas, as temperatures averaged 15 to 20 degrees below average. Record low maximum temperatures were set at Oklahoma City, OK and Wichita Falls, TX as temperatures only warmed up to 75° and 73° respectively.
2005 - Residents of Sand Point, AK population: 908 looked across Popof Strait to nearby Unga Island and saw a very rare tornado touch its uninhabited mountains. Sand Point is on Popof Island, one of a dozen or so Shumagin Islands at the start of the Aleutian Chain, 570 miles southwest of Anchorage near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.
2006 - It was the hottest day during the current heat wave in central California. Some record highs included: Delano: 116°, Three Rivers: 116°, Wasco: 114°, China Lake Naval Air Station: 113°, Fresno: 113°, Bakersfield: 112°, Inyokern: 112°, Friant Dam: 112°, Bass Lake: 107°, Yosemite Valley: 104° and Giant Forest: 84°.
2007 - On the southern tip of James Bay in Ontario Canada, the town of Moosonee had an afternoon temperature of 95°.
At Argos, Lamia, Serres and Eleusis, near Athens, Greece the temperature soared to 113°.
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1609 - The Jamestown expedition nearly came to an untimely end as the fleet of ships encountered a tropical storm while sailing northwest through the Bahamas. One of the nine ships sunk and the rest of the fleet scattered as far north as Bermuda.
1891 - The mercury hit 109 degrees at Los Angeles, CA, marking the peak of a torrid heat wave. (David Ludlum)
1933 - Japan's hottest temperature on record occurred as the city of Yamagata hit 105°.
1936 - Lincoln, NE set an all-time record high temperature with 115°. The overnight low only dropped to 91°. Omaha, NE set their all-time record high of 114°.
1952 - The State of Alabama was in the midst of a critical heat wave and drought. During an 8-day stretch, the "coolest" high temperature in Birmingham was 99°. The heat peaked on this date at 106°. This was just one degree short of the highest temperature ever recorded at Birmingham. During that heat wave and drought, some wells in Alabama went dry for the very first time.
1956 - The Andrea Doria sank in dense fog near Nantucket Lightship, MA. The ship was rammed by the Swedish-American liner, Stockholm, forty-five miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Fifty-two persons drowned, or were killed by the impact. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1979 - Tropical Storm Claudette formed in the central Atlantic the morning of July 15, 1979. It never reached hurricane intensity as it wandered across the northern Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico 10 days, making landfall near Port Arthur the evening of the 24th.
The storm veered left and stalled over Alvin the evening/early morning hours of the 25th/26th. This was a weak tropical storm and went through the "Core Rain" phase during that period. An observer 3.2 mi northwest of Alvin reported 8.0 in. during 4 hrs - 19.0 in. during 9 hrs, 30 minutes - 32.25 in. during 13 hrs, 47 minutes - 42.0 in. during 19 hrs - and a storm total of 45.0 in. during 42 hrs ending at 6 AM July 27th.
1984 - Severe thunderstorms moved from Corson County in north central South Dakota to Tripp County in the south central part of the state. The hardest hit area was the state capital of Pierre. Winds gusting to 83 mph demolished 13 planes and several hangers at the Pierre airport. In town, a home and three businesses lost their roofs and a trailer was destroyed. The thunderstorm also produced very heavy rains as 4 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes flooding streets across town. Winds in excess of 70 mph caused crop and property damage in many areas across central South Dakota.
1986 - Tremendous hailstones pounded parts of South Dakota damaging crops, buildings and vehicles. Hail piled two feet deep at Black Hawk and northern Rapid City. Hail an inch and a quarter in diameter fell for 85 minutes near Miller and Huron, piling up to depths of two feet. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Sixteen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Beckley, WV, equalled their all-time record high of 91 degrees, established just the previous day. It marked their fourth day in a row of 90 degree heat, after hitting 90 degrees just twice in the previous 25 years of records. The water temperature of Lake Erie at Buffalo, NY, reached 79 degrees, the warmest reading in 52 years of records. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from central Kansas to western Kentucky and southern Illinois during the day. Thunderstorms produced tennis ball size hail at Union, MO, and winds gusts to 65 mph at Sedalia, MO. Five cities in Washington and Oregon reported record high temperatures for the date. Medford, OR, hit 107 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Early afternoon thunderstorms over west central Missouri drenched the town of Ferguson with four inches of rain. Early evening thunderstorms in Pennsylvania produced more than two inches of rain north of Avella in one hour. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Intense, slow-moving thunderstorms, dumped up to 11 inches of rain in just 6 hours at Lawton, OK. The flash flooding closed many roads, and 50 to 60 motorists had to be rescued when they became stranded in the high water.
1992 - Grapefruit sized hail knocked windshields out of several cars about 9.5 miles northeast of Scott City, KS.
1993 - Lake Kampeska, near Watertown, SD reached near record level at 37 inches over full mark due to runoff from heavy rains in previous days. Dozens of homes and two businesses were flooded out. About 100,000 sandbags were distributed to help prevent more flood damage to lakeside property owners.
1994 - Hurricane Gilma, like Emilia a week earlier, reached Category 5 strength in the Eastern Pacific Basin. Amazing considering up to that time, only four other category 5 storms were observed dating back to 1949.
1996 - Street Flooding was observed in Crockett (Houston County). Three cars were swept off Highway 21. Highway 7 was barricaded due to high water. Total damage was around $10,000.
1998 - Thunderous rains unleashed dangerous flash flooding from northeast Kansas through central Missouri during the overnight hours. Kansas City was especially hard hit with the suburb of Independence reporting 6.5 inches of rain, most of it falling in a matter of a few hours. Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain over parts of Banner and Cheyenne counties of the Nebraska panhandle, with local amounts around 4.5 inches. This produced flash flooding which closed some county roads, and put 6 to 18 inches of water on some streets in Sidney, NE.
2000 - An F4 tornado at Granite Falls, MN caused one fatality and $20 million dollars in damage.
2003 - Lightning struck a home during an overnight thunderstorm southwest of Oslo, Norway. The charge moved into the bedroom and through an iron bed, as a Norwegian couple was sleeping on it. The couple was unharmed, but the lightning strike burned out all of the electric sockets.
2004 - It was an unseasonably cool summer day across Oklahoma and western north Texas, as temperatures averaged 15 to 20 degrees below average. Record low maximum temperatures were set at Oklahoma City, OK and Wichita Falls, TX as temperatures only warmed up to 75° and 73° respectively.
2005 - Residents of Sand Point, AK population: 908 looked across Popof Strait to nearby Unga Island and saw a very rare tornado touch its uninhabited mountains. Sand Point is on Popof Island, one of a dozen or so Shumagin Islands at the start of the Aleutian Chain, 570 miles southwest of Anchorage near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.
2006 - It was the hottest day during the current heat wave in central California. Some record highs included: Delano: 116°, Three Rivers: 116°, Wasco: 114°, China Lake Naval Air Station: 113°, Fresno: 113°, Bakersfield: 112°, Inyokern: 112°, Friant Dam: 112°, Bass Lake: 107°, Yosemite Valley: 104° and Giant Forest: 84°.
2007 - On the southern tip of James Bay in Ontario Canada, the town of Moosonee had an afternoon temperature of 95°.
At Argos, Lamia, Serres and Eleusis, near Athens, Greece the temperature soared to 113°.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=7&d=25
http://www.floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/patton.htm#20
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... d-flooding
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_july
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For July 26th
1819 - Twin cloudbursts of fifteen inches struck almost simultaneously at Catskill, NY, and Westfield, MA. Flash flooding resulted in enormous erosion. (David Ludlum)
1874 - A 30 minute cloud burst over Pittsburgh, PA caused flash flooding which killed more than 133 people.
1875 - A windstorm, possibly a tornado, ripped through Erie, PA killing 134 people and causing $500,000 dollars damage.
1890 - A powerful F3 tornado raked Lawrence, MA at 9:10am over its 11 mile trek, killing eight people and injuring 63 others. The storm destroyed 35 homes and damaged 60 others. Storms of this strength and occurring at this early hour are very rare in New England.
1897 - Jewell, MD received 14.75 inches of rain; a 24-hour rainfall record for Maryland.
1921 - On the summit of Mt. Wellenkuppe, in Switzerland, the temperature reached 100 degrees by 10 am. The summit has an elevation of 12,830 feet and was covered in snow.
1943 - Tishomingo, OK, baked in the heat as the mercury soared to 121 degrees, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - One of the wettest 24 hour periods on record in Japan ended on this date as 43.70 inches fell at Saigo in the Nagasaki prefecture in the northwestern part of the southern Japanese island Kyushu. This area is prone to very heavy rain, and during the 24 hour period several stations registered more than 30 inches.
1960 - The temperature at Salt Lake City, UT, hit 107 degrees, an all-time record high for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1970 - Sydney, Australia's second longest dry spell on record came to an end. This dry spell lasted 34 days starting on June 23. Normally 5.11 inches of rain falls in June and 3.90 inches in July.
1977 - Canadian high pressure brought record cold temperatures to parts of the Great Lakes region. Record lows included: Madison, WI: 46°, Muskegon, MI: 46°, Green Bay, WI: 47°, Flint, MI: 48, Toledo, OH: 50°, Detroit, MI: 50° and Springfield, IL: 52°.
1979 - Tropical Storm Claudette formed in the central Atlantic the morning of July 15, 1979. It never reached hurricane intensity as it wandered across the northern Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico 10 days, making landfall near Port Arthur the evening of the 24th.
The storm veered left and stalled over Alvin the evening/early morning hours of the 25th/26th. This was a weak tropical storm and went through the "Core Rain" phase during that period. An observer 3.2 mi northwest of Alvin reported 8.0 in. during 4 hrs - 19.0 in. during 9 hrs, 30 minutes - 32.25 in. during 13 hrs, 47 minutes - 42.0 in. during 19 hrs - and a storm total of 45.0 in. during 42 hrs ending at 6 AM July 27th.
1986 - Strong thunderstorms hit north central South Dakota. One of these storms was a very efficient rain producer as it dumped 2.25 inches of rain in 10 minutes near McLaughlin. Strong thunderstorm winds did damage near Mitchell on that same day. The strong winds destroyed a barn, a roof, and windmill in the Mitchell area.
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced hail two inches in diameter in McHenry County, IL, and wind gusts to 70 mph at Auburn, ME. A wind gust of 90 mph was recorded at Blairstown, NJ, before the anemometer broke. The high winds were associated with a small tornado. The record high of 88 degrees at Beckley, WV, was their sixth in a row. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region, and in the south central U.S. Eight cities in the northwestern and north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Salem, OR, hit 103 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Morning thunderstorms produced heavy rain in southeastern Texas, with more than three inches reported at the Widllife Refuge in southwestern Chambers County. Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in Montana, with wind gusts to 62 mph reported at Helena. Eight cities from Maine to Minnesota reported record high temperatures for the date, including Newark, NJ, with a reading of 99 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1993 - The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993: Rising water stopped all rail traffic through Kansas City, MO.
A tornado moved along a 4 mile track across parts of northwest Scottsbluff, NE. The tornado destroyed a furniture store and about 8 homes, with about $3 million dollars in damage.
Pueblo, CO set a record low of 52° and a record high of 101°.
2000 - A line of thunderstorms developed in Iowa and pushed southward into northwest Missouri. The early storms produced large hail in the northwest corner of Missouri. Wind gusts in excess of 70 mph and widespread wind damage occurred from the St. Joseph area southward to the Kansas City metro and other locations in west central Missouri. The highway department reported downed trees up to 4 feet in diameter, and a tree blown down onto a car. A 90-foot flagpole was broken. A building under construction in an industrial park sustained over $1 million dollars in damage.
2001 - Up to 8 inches of rain fell in about 3 to 4 hours across Copiah County, Mississippi. Many roads were flooded, and several residences and businesses sustained water damage. One culvert under a road was completely washed out by flood waters. Various portions of Rankin County had significant flooding. In Pearl, at least three homes were flooded and water covered a number of roads. Several roads had to be closed. Several cars became nearly submerged by the flood waters. Flooding also caused road closures in the Florence and Flowood areas. Water also covered several roads and came over the top of drainage ditches in portions of Brandon where up to six inches of rain fell in a few hours.
2004 - Several record low temperatures were set across the south-central Plains. Gage, OK dropped to 48°, breaking their record low by nine degrees. Ponca City, OK dropped to 56°, breaking a record by 5 degrees, while Hobart, OK dropped to 58°, breaking their record by seven degrees. Wichita Falls, TX broke a record that stood for 80 years, with a low temperature of 63°, and Oklahoma City, OK tied a record standing 93 years, by registering the same temperature of 63°.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people were stranded as 37.1 inches of rain fell in one day in suburban Bombay, India. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded in India shut down the financial hub snapped communication lines and closed airports.
2006 - The low temperature for the day at Death Valley National Park, CA bottomed out at 104°. The day's high was 116°.
Fresno, CA recorded their 5th straight night with a minimum temperature of 80° or better. This is their longest such streak on record.
2009 - Since June 12th, San Antonio registered 31 days with temperatures of 100° or higher. Across the Rio Grande Valley, extreme heat in McAllen this month has been staggering with 20 days of record-setting high temperatures. This day made it the 11th day in a row that new record highs were set.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=7&d=26
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... flooding-1
http://www.floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/patton.htm#20
1819 - Twin cloudbursts of fifteen inches struck almost simultaneously at Catskill, NY, and Westfield, MA. Flash flooding resulted in enormous erosion. (David Ludlum)
1874 - A 30 minute cloud burst over Pittsburgh, PA caused flash flooding which killed more than 133 people.
1875 - A windstorm, possibly a tornado, ripped through Erie, PA killing 134 people and causing $500,000 dollars damage.
1890 - A powerful F3 tornado raked Lawrence, MA at 9:10am over its 11 mile trek, killing eight people and injuring 63 others. The storm destroyed 35 homes and damaged 60 others. Storms of this strength and occurring at this early hour are very rare in New England.
1897 - Jewell, MD received 14.75 inches of rain; a 24-hour rainfall record for Maryland.
1921 - On the summit of Mt. Wellenkuppe, in Switzerland, the temperature reached 100 degrees by 10 am. The summit has an elevation of 12,830 feet and was covered in snow.
1943 - Tishomingo, OK, baked in the heat as the mercury soared to 121 degrees, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - One of the wettest 24 hour periods on record in Japan ended on this date as 43.70 inches fell at Saigo in the Nagasaki prefecture in the northwestern part of the southern Japanese island Kyushu. This area is prone to very heavy rain, and during the 24 hour period several stations registered more than 30 inches.
1960 - The temperature at Salt Lake City, UT, hit 107 degrees, an all-time record high for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1970 - Sydney, Australia's second longest dry spell on record came to an end. This dry spell lasted 34 days starting on June 23. Normally 5.11 inches of rain falls in June and 3.90 inches in July.
1977 - Canadian high pressure brought record cold temperatures to parts of the Great Lakes region. Record lows included: Madison, WI: 46°, Muskegon, MI: 46°, Green Bay, WI: 47°, Flint, MI: 48, Toledo, OH: 50°, Detroit, MI: 50° and Springfield, IL: 52°.
1979 - Tropical Storm Claudette formed in the central Atlantic the morning of July 15, 1979. It never reached hurricane intensity as it wandered across the northern Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico 10 days, making landfall near Port Arthur the evening of the 24th.
The storm veered left and stalled over Alvin the evening/early morning hours of the 25th/26th. This was a weak tropical storm and went through the "Core Rain" phase during that period. An observer 3.2 mi northwest of Alvin reported 8.0 in. during 4 hrs - 19.0 in. during 9 hrs, 30 minutes - 32.25 in. during 13 hrs, 47 minutes - 42.0 in. during 19 hrs - and a storm total of 45.0 in. during 42 hrs ending at 6 AM July 27th.
1986 - Strong thunderstorms hit north central South Dakota. One of these storms was a very efficient rain producer as it dumped 2.25 inches of rain in 10 minutes near McLaughlin. Strong thunderstorm winds did damage near Mitchell on that same day. The strong winds destroyed a barn, a roof, and windmill in the Mitchell area.
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced hail two inches in diameter in McHenry County, IL, and wind gusts to 70 mph at Auburn, ME. A wind gust of 90 mph was recorded at Blairstown, NJ, before the anemometer broke. The high winds were associated with a small tornado. The record high of 88 degrees at Beckley, WV, was their sixth in a row. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region, and in the south central U.S. Eight cities in the northwestern and north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Salem, OR, hit 103 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Morning thunderstorms produced heavy rain in southeastern Texas, with more than three inches reported at the Widllife Refuge in southwestern Chambers County. Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in Montana, with wind gusts to 62 mph reported at Helena. Eight cities from Maine to Minnesota reported record high temperatures for the date, including Newark, NJ, with a reading of 99 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1993 - The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993: Rising water stopped all rail traffic through Kansas City, MO.
A tornado moved along a 4 mile track across parts of northwest Scottsbluff, NE. The tornado destroyed a furniture store and about 8 homes, with about $3 million dollars in damage.
Pueblo, CO set a record low of 52° and a record high of 101°.
2000 - A line of thunderstorms developed in Iowa and pushed southward into northwest Missouri. The early storms produced large hail in the northwest corner of Missouri. Wind gusts in excess of 70 mph and widespread wind damage occurred from the St. Joseph area southward to the Kansas City metro and other locations in west central Missouri. The highway department reported downed trees up to 4 feet in diameter, and a tree blown down onto a car. A 90-foot flagpole was broken. A building under construction in an industrial park sustained over $1 million dollars in damage.
2001 - Up to 8 inches of rain fell in about 3 to 4 hours across Copiah County, Mississippi. Many roads were flooded, and several residences and businesses sustained water damage. One culvert under a road was completely washed out by flood waters. Various portions of Rankin County had significant flooding. In Pearl, at least three homes were flooded and water covered a number of roads. Several roads had to be closed. Several cars became nearly submerged by the flood waters. Flooding also caused road closures in the Florence and Flowood areas. Water also covered several roads and came over the top of drainage ditches in portions of Brandon where up to six inches of rain fell in a few hours.
2004 - Several record low temperatures were set across the south-central Plains. Gage, OK dropped to 48°, breaking their record low by nine degrees. Ponca City, OK dropped to 56°, breaking a record by 5 degrees, while Hobart, OK dropped to 58°, breaking their record by seven degrees. Wichita Falls, TX broke a record that stood for 80 years, with a low temperature of 63°, and Oklahoma City, OK tied a record standing 93 years, by registering the same temperature of 63°.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people were stranded as 37.1 inches of rain fell in one day in suburban Bombay, India. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded in India shut down the financial hub snapped communication lines and closed airports.
2006 - The low temperature for the day at Death Valley National Park, CA bottomed out at 104°. The day's high was 116°.
Fresno, CA recorded their 5th straight night with a minimum temperature of 80° or better. This is their longest such streak on record.
2009 - Since June 12th, San Antonio registered 31 days with temperatures of 100° or higher. Across the Rio Grande Valley, extreme heat in McAllen this month has been staggering with 20 days of record-setting high temperatures. This day made it the 11th day in a row that new record highs were set.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=7&d=26
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... flooding-1
http://www.floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/patton.htm#20
For July 31st
1769 - Hail fell 12 inches deep and lasted for 30 hours at Scituate, MA.
1861 - Cherrapunji, India set a world monthly rainfall record with a total of 366.14 inches. Cherrapunji also holds the world record rainfall for a 12-month period: 1,041.78 inches from August 1, 1860 to July 31, 1861.
1891 - A six day streak with high temperatures at or above 110° finally came to an end at Fresno, CA. This is their longest such streak on record.
1906 - Everyday this month at Bakersfield, CA the high temperature was at or above 100°. This is the only month on record where that occurred there.
1931 - Fresno, CA reached triple digit highs 28 days during the month. This tied a record for the most 100 degree plus days with July 1906.
1936 - A tropical storm moved in from the Bahamas and crossed extreme south Florida into the Gulf of Mexico. The storm strengthened into a hurricane and made landfall near Ft. Walton Beach, FL early on this date. Winds gusted to 125 mph and storm surge reached 6 feet. Four people died.
1949 - Lightning struck a baseball field at Baker, FL during a game. The shortstop and third baseman were killed instantly and the second baseman was fatally injured. 50 people out of the crowd of 300 spectators were also injured. The lightning bolt dug a 20 foot long ditch through the infield.
1971 - Unusually cold air settled into the southern Plains. Low temperatures were 15 to 20 degrees below normal, ranging from the mid 40s in northeast Oklahoma, the lower 50s in central sections, and near 60 in the southwest. Oklahoma City recorded a low of 53°, their coldest temperature ever observed in July.
1976 - A stationary thunderstorm produced more than ten inches of rain which funneled into the narrow Thompson River Canyon of northeastern Colorado. A wall of water six to eight feet high wreaked a twenty-five mile path of destruction from Estes Park to Loveland killing 156 persons. The flash flood caught campers, and caused extensive structural and highway damage. Ten miles of U.S. Highway 34 were totally destroyed as the river was twenty feet higher than normal at times. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1986 - The temperature at Little Rock, AR, soared to 112 degrees to establish an all-time record high for that location. Morrilton, AR, hit 115 degrees, and daily highs for the month at that location averaged 102 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - The deadliest tornado in 75 years struck Edmonton, Alberta, killing 26 persons and injuring 200 others. The twister caused more than 75 million dollars damage along its nineteen mile path, leaving 400 families homeless. At the Evergreen Mobile Home Park, up to 200 of the 720 homes were flattened by the tornado. (The National Severe Storms Forecast Center)
1987 - Afternoon highs of 106 degrees at Aberdeen, SD, and 102 degrees at Ottumwa, IA, and Rapid City, SD, established records for the date. It marked the seventh straight day of 100 degree heat for Rapid City. Baltimore, MD, reported a record twenty-two days of 90 degree weather in July. Evening thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail at Lemmon, SD, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Beulah, ND. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Twenty-one cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Sioux City, IA, with a reading of 107 degrees. The reading of 105 degrees at Minneapolis, MN, was their hottest since 1936. Pierre and Chamberlain, SD, with highs of 108 degrees, were just one degree shy of the hot spot in the nation, Palm Springs, CA. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Overnight thunderstorms soaked eastern Kansas and western Missouri with heavy rain. Four and a half inches of rain was reported at Nevada, MO. Evening thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Covington. Six cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Williston, ND, with a reading of 105 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - Roswell, NM closed out the month with a total of 6.68 inches of rain to set a new record for the month.
July became the wettest month ever with 17.46 inches of rain at Columbia, SC. The old record was 16.72 inches set in August 1949.
1992 - An F0 Tornado was reported near Cat Springs (Austin County) by the public. Minor roof damage was done to buildings in the area, and some power lines were also downed.
Flint, MI ended their coolest July on record, while Columbus, OH, Buffalo, NY and Williamsport, PA experienced their wettest. Columbus had a record 29 cloudy days and 17 days with thunderstorms during the month.
Boston, MA not only went the entire month, but the entire year without a temperature of 90° or higher.
1993 - The 30.3 inches of rain that fell during the month at Worth County, Missouri was nearly equal to the amount of rainfall that the area would receive in an entire year.
Record precipitation that occurred across a good portion of the mid-Mississippi valley during the summer fell as far east as parts of central Illinois. During the month of July, Canton reported 12.66 inches of rain and Peoria reported 10.15 inches, both setting a record for the month. Springfield's 9.46 inches was good enough for the 2nd wettest July on record.
This was the wettest July on record in parts of eastern South Dakota and contributed to the wettest three month period in some of those same areas. The prolonged wet spell caused the unprecedented long period of flooding that plagued eastern South Dakota that year.
Sioux Falls airport received 7.86 inches. That ranks July 1993 as the third wettest July on record in Sioux Falls. The high total of July 1993 also contributed to the wettest summer (June, July & August) on record in Sioux Falls with 17.39 inches of rain.
Crop growth was very slow, with corn and soybeans two weeks to one month behind their normal growth by the end of July in Iowa. Estimates for the total crop loss in Iowa were in the 35 to 40 percent range. Losses in the corn crop amounted to nearly $1.389 billion, losses in soybeans were around $941 million dollars and oat damage was about $26 million dollars. Measurable rainfall was recorded somewhere in Iowa from June 22nd to July 25th and rain was recorded on 28 of 31 days in July.
Five weeks of heavy monsoon rains and flooding killed 2,700 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal leaving millions homeless. 1,600 of the deaths were reported in Nepal from swollen rivers and streams and landslides triggered by the rains and flooding.
1994 - Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919.
1995 - Tropical Storm Dean struck the Southeast Texas coast. Dean began as the fourth tropical depression of the 1995 season on the 28th in the North Central Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm warnings were issued for the upper Texas coast on the 29th from Intracoastal City, LA to Corpus Christi, TX. On the 30th, Dean was upgraded to tropical storm status just southeast of Galveston. Dean made landfall near San Luis Pass on the 30th and moved inland over Brazoria County. The storm was quickly downgraded to a depression. Galveston Scholes Field's peak wind was 51 mph and lowest pressure was 1003.4 mb. Tides were 3 to 3.5 feet above normal and ranged from 3.3 feet at Morgans Point to 4.8 feet at Pleasure Pier above lower low water. Minor storm surge flooding of Highway 87 (Galveston County) occurred. There were two confirmed tornadoes - one on High Island (Galveston County) and the other just southeast of Anahuac (Chambers County). Dean also produced flooding rains across portions of Chambers and southern Liberty Counties. Unofficial rainfall reports and radar estimates indicated 15 to 18 inches of rain fell in central Chambers into extreme southern Liberty Counties between High Island and Liberty. Monroe City (Chambers County) measured 16.78 inches of rain. No injuries or deaths were reported. The evacuation of 20 families was necessary in Chambers County due to rainfall flooding. Total damage from Dean was around $500,000 mainly from rainfall flooding.
A 19-year-old male resident drowned in a rip current near the Breakers Hotel at Palm Beach, FL. The rip current was caused by swells from Hurricane Erin.
1996 - The month was cool and wet across the east with a persistent trough of low pressure providing lots of clouds and rainfall. Temperatures at New York and Philadelphia never reached 90° during the month, a highly unusual occurrence. It was the first time that that had happened in The Big Apple in over 100 years and the first time at Philly since 1906.
A major hailstorm struck Cheyenne, WY with hail reported up to 2.5 inches in diameter. Damage was estimated to be about $3.4 million dollars.
1997 - Indianapolis, IN had their driest July in 83 years, and the second driest on record as only 0.55 of an inch of rain fell. The last time less rain fell in any month at the airport was June 1988 with 0.36 of an inch. July is normally the wettest month of the year there. Measurable rain fell on only 5 days during the month. As dry as it was at the airport, other parts of Marion County, Indiana saw nearly-normal rainfall for the month.
A 117 day-long streak of rainless days came to an end as 0.14 of an inch of rain fell shortly before midnight at Phoenix, AZ. It had not rained in Phoenix since 0.16 of an inch fell on April 3. This tied for the sixth longest streak without measurable rain since records began in 1896. The longest streak on record is 160 days from December 30, 1971 until June 6, 1972.
South Pole, Antarctica recorded their coldest July ever. The average temperature of -86.8° broke the previous record of -83.6° set in July 1965.
1998 - The temperature at Shreveport, LA reached 107°, tying their all-time hottest temperature ever for July set back in 1874. This July was the hottest month on record in Shreveport.
July was the hottest month on record in Austin and San Antonio, TX. Dallas hit 107°; the 27th straight day with temperatures at or above 100°. Brownsville, TX went the entire month without any rainfall. College Station endured 27 days in a row with temperatures at or above 100°, an all time record. McAllen, TX received a mere 0.03 of an inch of rain in the four month period from April to July.
2001 - Strong thunderstorm winds gusting to near hurricane force channeled under a partially open garage door at a home in North Platte, NE ripping the roof off the garage and master bedroom. Heavy rains poured water into the bedroom, a bathroom and the kitchen. Total damage was estimated at $60,000 dollars.
2003 - A month of heat established new record high monthly average temperatures at many locations in the west including: Phoenix, AZ: 97.6°; Grand Junction, CO: 84.1°; Salt Lake City, UT: 83.4°; Sacramento, CA: 81.6° and Cheyenne, WY: 75.1°.
The dew point at Las Vegas, NV reached 73°, the highest in memory there.
2004 - A strong tornado zigzagged through Durham-Sud, Quebec Canada damaging cars and houses and ripping roofs off several buildings.
2011 - Armenia recorded its hottest temperature on record when Meghri hit 110.7°. The previous record was 109.6° recorded on 7/17/2005.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... p?m=7&d=31
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_july
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... nd?cid=rss
1769 - Hail fell 12 inches deep and lasted for 30 hours at Scituate, MA.
1861 - Cherrapunji, India set a world monthly rainfall record with a total of 366.14 inches. Cherrapunji also holds the world record rainfall for a 12-month period: 1,041.78 inches from August 1, 1860 to July 31, 1861.
1891 - A six day streak with high temperatures at or above 110° finally came to an end at Fresno, CA. This is their longest such streak on record.
1906 - Everyday this month at Bakersfield, CA the high temperature was at or above 100°. This is the only month on record where that occurred there.
1931 - Fresno, CA reached triple digit highs 28 days during the month. This tied a record for the most 100 degree plus days with July 1906.
1936 - A tropical storm moved in from the Bahamas and crossed extreme south Florida into the Gulf of Mexico. The storm strengthened into a hurricane and made landfall near Ft. Walton Beach, FL early on this date. Winds gusted to 125 mph and storm surge reached 6 feet. Four people died.
1949 - Lightning struck a baseball field at Baker, FL during a game. The shortstop and third baseman were killed instantly and the second baseman was fatally injured. 50 people out of the crowd of 300 spectators were also injured. The lightning bolt dug a 20 foot long ditch through the infield.
1971 - Unusually cold air settled into the southern Plains. Low temperatures were 15 to 20 degrees below normal, ranging from the mid 40s in northeast Oklahoma, the lower 50s in central sections, and near 60 in the southwest. Oklahoma City recorded a low of 53°, their coldest temperature ever observed in July.
1976 - A stationary thunderstorm produced more than ten inches of rain which funneled into the narrow Thompson River Canyon of northeastern Colorado. A wall of water six to eight feet high wreaked a twenty-five mile path of destruction from Estes Park to Loveland killing 156 persons. The flash flood caught campers, and caused extensive structural and highway damage. Ten miles of U.S. Highway 34 were totally destroyed as the river was twenty feet higher than normal at times. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1986 - The temperature at Little Rock, AR, soared to 112 degrees to establish an all-time record high for that location. Morrilton, AR, hit 115 degrees, and daily highs for the month at that location averaged 102 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - The deadliest tornado in 75 years struck Edmonton, Alberta, killing 26 persons and injuring 200 others. The twister caused more than 75 million dollars damage along its nineteen mile path, leaving 400 families homeless. At the Evergreen Mobile Home Park, up to 200 of the 720 homes were flattened by the tornado. (The National Severe Storms Forecast Center)
1987 - Afternoon highs of 106 degrees at Aberdeen, SD, and 102 degrees at Ottumwa, IA, and Rapid City, SD, established records for the date. It marked the seventh straight day of 100 degree heat for Rapid City. Baltimore, MD, reported a record twenty-two days of 90 degree weather in July. Evening thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail at Lemmon, SD, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Beulah, ND. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Twenty-one cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Sioux City, IA, with a reading of 107 degrees. The reading of 105 degrees at Minneapolis, MN, was their hottest since 1936. Pierre and Chamberlain, SD, with highs of 108 degrees, were just one degree shy of the hot spot in the nation, Palm Springs, CA. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Overnight thunderstorms soaked eastern Kansas and western Missouri with heavy rain. Four and a half inches of rain was reported at Nevada, MO. Evening thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Covington. Six cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Williston, ND, with a reading of 105 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1991 - Roswell, NM closed out the month with a total of 6.68 inches of rain to set a new record for the month.
July became the wettest month ever with 17.46 inches of rain at Columbia, SC. The old record was 16.72 inches set in August 1949.
1992 - An F0 Tornado was reported near Cat Springs (Austin County) by the public. Minor roof damage was done to buildings in the area, and some power lines were also downed.
Flint, MI ended their coolest July on record, while Columbus, OH, Buffalo, NY and Williamsport, PA experienced their wettest. Columbus had a record 29 cloudy days and 17 days with thunderstorms during the month.
Boston, MA not only went the entire month, but the entire year without a temperature of 90° or higher.
1993 - The 30.3 inches of rain that fell during the month at Worth County, Missouri was nearly equal to the amount of rainfall that the area would receive in an entire year.
Record precipitation that occurred across a good portion of the mid-Mississippi valley during the summer fell as far east as parts of central Illinois. During the month of July, Canton reported 12.66 inches of rain and Peoria reported 10.15 inches, both setting a record for the month. Springfield's 9.46 inches was good enough for the 2nd wettest July on record.
This was the wettest July on record in parts of eastern South Dakota and contributed to the wettest three month period in some of those same areas. The prolonged wet spell caused the unprecedented long period of flooding that plagued eastern South Dakota that year.
Sioux Falls airport received 7.86 inches. That ranks July 1993 as the third wettest July on record in Sioux Falls. The high total of July 1993 also contributed to the wettest summer (June, July & August) on record in Sioux Falls with 17.39 inches of rain.
Crop growth was very slow, with corn and soybeans two weeks to one month behind their normal growth by the end of July in Iowa. Estimates for the total crop loss in Iowa were in the 35 to 40 percent range. Losses in the corn crop amounted to nearly $1.389 billion, losses in soybeans were around $941 million dollars and oat damage was about $26 million dollars. Measurable rainfall was recorded somewhere in Iowa from June 22nd to July 25th and rain was recorded on 28 of 31 days in July.
Five weeks of heavy monsoon rains and flooding killed 2,700 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal leaving millions homeless. 1,600 of the deaths were reported in Nepal from swollen rivers and streams and landslides triggered by the rains and flooding.
1994 - Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919.
1995 - Tropical Storm Dean struck the Southeast Texas coast. Dean began as the fourth tropical depression of the 1995 season on the 28th in the North Central Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm warnings were issued for the upper Texas coast on the 29th from Intracoastal City, LA to Corpus Christi, TX. On the 30th, Dean was upgraded to tropical storm status just southeast of Galveston. Dean made landfall near San Luis Pass on the 30th and moved inland over Brazoria County. The storm was quickly downgraded to a depression. Galveston Scholes Field's peak wind was 51 mph and lowest pressure was 1003.4 mb. Tides were 3 to 3.5 feet above normal and ranged from 3.3 feet at Morgans Point to 4.8 feet at Pleasure Pier above lower low water. Minor storm surge flooding of Highway 87 (Galveston County) occurred. There were two confirmed tornadoes - one on High Island (Galveston County) and the other just southeast of Anahuac (Chambers County). Dean also produced flooding rains across portions of Chambers and southern Liberty Counties. Unofficial rainfall reports and radar estimates indicated 15 to 18 inches of rain fell in central Chambers into extreme southern Liberty Counties between High Island and Liberty. Monroe City (Chambers County) measured 16.78 inches of rain. No injuries or deaths were reported. The evacuation of 20 families was necessary in Chambers County due to rainfall flooding. Total damage from Dean was around $500,000 mainly from rainfall flooding.
A 19-year-old male resident drowned in a rip current near the Breakers Hotel at Palm Beach, FL. The rip current was caused by swells from Hurricane Erin.
1996 - The month was cool and wet across the east with a persistent trough of low pressure providing lots of clouds and rainfall. Temperatures at New York and Philadelphia never reached 90° during the month, a highly unusual occurrence. It was the first time that that had happened in The Big Apple in over 100 years and the first time at Philly since 1906.
A major hailstorm struck Cheyenne, WY with hail reported up to 2.5 inches in diameter. Damage was estimated to be about $3.4 million dollars.
1997 - Indianapolis, IN had their driest July in 83 years, and the second driest on record as only 0.55 of an inch of rain fell. The last time less rain fell in any month at the airport was June 1988 with 0.36 of an inch. July is normally the wettest month of the year there. Measurable rain fell on only 5 days during the month. As dry as it was at the airport, other parts of Marion County, Indiana saw nearly-normal rainfall for the month.
A 117 day-long streak of rainless days came to an end as 0.14 of an inch of rain fell shortly before midnight at Phoenix, AZ. It had not rained in Phoenix since 0.16 of an inch fell on April 3. This tied for the sixth longest streak without measurable rain since records began in 1896. The longest streak on record is 160 days from December 30, 1971 until June 6, 1972.
South Pole, Antarctica recorded their coldest July ever. The average temperature of -86.8° broke the previous record of -83.6° set in July 1965.
1998 - The temperature at Shreveport, LA reached 107°, tying their all-time hottest temperature ever for July set back in 1874. This July was the hottest month on record in Shreveport.
July was the hottest month on record in Austin and San Antonio, TX. Dallas hit 107°; the 27th straight day with temperatures at or above 100°. Brownsville, TX went the entire month without any rainfall. College Station endured 27 days in a row with temperatures at or above 100°, an all time record. McAllen, TX received a mere 0.03 of an inch of rain in the four month period from April to July.
2001 - Strong thunderstorm winds gusting to near hurricane force channeled under a partially open garage door at a home in North Platte, NE ripping the roof off the garage and master bedroom. Heavy rains poured water into the bedroom, a bathroom and the kitchen. Total damage was estimated at $60,000 dollars.
2003 - A month of heat established new record high monthly average temperatures at many locations in the west including: Phoenix, AZ: 97.6°; Grand Junction, CO: 84.1°; Salt Lake City, UT: 83.4°; Sacramento, CA: 81.6° and Cheyenne, WY: 75.1°.
The dew point at Las Vegas, NV reached 73°, the highest in memory there.
2004 - A strong tornado zigzagged through Durham-Sud, Quebec Canada damaging cars and houses and ripping roofs off several buildings.
2011 - Armenia recorded its hottest temperature on record when Meghri hit 110.7°. The previous record was 109.6° recorded on 7/17/2005.
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For August 1st
1812 - A tornado struck parts of Westchester County, New York. The same storm today would have caused major destruction.
1861 - Captain Robert Fitz-Roy initiated a daily weather forecast for the following day for several regions of England. The service was well received by the public, but people in scientific circles criticized the effort saying that it lacked scientific merit. Fitz-Roy used data telegraphed the Meteorological Department in London from 15 stations across the country each morning. Disturbed by the criticism, Fitz-Roy killed himself less than four years later.
1917 - 80 forest fires were ignited in Trinity County, California when an electrical storm produced hundreds of lightning bolts over a small area which was tinder-box dry from severe drought.
1933-A major forest fire burned 200,000 acres of the same area burned by the 1933 Great Tillamook Burn in Oregon, along with 20,000 additional acres of prime timber. Much like the 1933 inferno, the fire raged out of control, fed by a strong east wind.
1947 - What turned out to be the hottest August on record started off on a decidedly cool note across parts of Michigan with record lows at: Houghton Lake, MI: 32°, Ste. St. Marie, MI: 36°, Muskegon, MI: 43°, Flint, MI: 43° and Grand Rapids, MI: 48°.
1954 - Mount Rainier in Washington State was still covered with sixteen inches of snow at the 5500 foot level following a big snow season. (David Ludlum)
1966 - A gunman goes up the University of Texas at Austin Clocktower and starts shooting people from the observation deck. Once the massacre is over, 17 people are killed, including one who died in 2001. 32 people are wounded in the deadly massacre. The UT Clocktower is the deadliest single day mass shooting before 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre, 1991 Killeen Luby's Massacre, and 2007 Virgina Tech Massacre.
Very strong winds from severe thunderstorms struck northwest Oklahoma. Winds gusted to 80 mph in Laverne, and blew a parked Cessna aircraft through a fence and into a ditch. As the storms approached Gage, winds gusted to 92 mph, causing blowing dust that reduced the visibility to near zero.
1969 - A severe hailstorm pummeled Montreal, Quebec Canada. Hailstones measured up to three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
1972 - This was the first of 25 straight days without measurable rain at Philadelphia, PA.
1975
Montreal, Quebec Canada recorded its hottest day on record as the temperature reached 100°.
1976 - Flight operations at the former Stapleton Airport in Denver, CO were suspended for 90 minutes when the airport tower radar was knocked out and water reached a foot deep on some taxi ramps after 1.50 inches of rain fell in one hour.
Record lows gripped Wisconsin including Green Bay, WI: 45°, Madison, WI: 47°, La Crosse, WI: 49° and Milwaukee, WI: 49°.
1978 - A severe thunderstorm developed in Beadle County, South Dakota during the afternoon and plunged southeastward. Winds up to 80 mph and hail the size of golf balls pelted the area. The hail piled up to six inches deep on roads and to three feet in the ditches. So much hail fell that it remained on the ground in some areas for 36 hours after the storm. Approximately 480,000 acres of nearly ripe crops were badly damaged or completely destroyed. Damage to crops and personal property was estimated at $4 million dollars.
Over 35 inches of rain fell in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio, TX between 7/31 and 8/4 as the remnants of Tropical Storm Amelia stalled. The heavy rains caused severe flash flooding.
1980 - The relentless heat from the summer of 1980 continued. Record highs included: Wichita, KS: 110°, Oklahoma City, OK 108°, Columbia, MO: 108°, Topeka, KS: 107°, Dodge City, KS: 106°, Little Rock, AR: 105°, St. Louis, MO: 104° and Springfield, MO: 103°.
1983 - A thunderstorm at Andrews AFB in Maryland produced a microburst wind gust of 149 mph. Air Force One with President Reagan aboard had landed there just 10 minutes earlier.
1985 - A nearly stationary thunderstorm deluged Cheyenne, WY, with rain and hail. Six inches of rain fell in six hours producing the most damaging flash flood of record for the state. Two to five feet of hail covered the ground following the storm, which claimed twelve lives, and caused 65 million dollars property damage. (Storm Data)
1986 - A powerful thunderstorm produced 100 mph winds and large hail in eastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri causing 71 million dollars damage, and injuring nineteen persons. It was one of the worst thunderstorms of record for Kansas. Crops were mowed to the ground in places and roofs blown off buildings along its path, 150 miles long and 30 miles wide, from near Abilene to southeast of Pittsburg. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Record heat gripped parts of the Midwest. A dozen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Lincoln, NE, with a reading of 105 degrees, Moline, IL, with an afternoon high of 103 degrees, and Burlington, IA, with a reading of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Two dozen cities in the Upper Midwest reported record high temperatures for the date, including La Crosse WI with a reading of 105 degrees. Highs of 103 degrees at Milwaukee, WI, and South Bend, IN, were records for the month of August. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Hurricane Chantal began over the Gulf of Mexico just off the shore of Yucatan near Progreso, Mexico on July 30th and began moving steadily north then northwest over the Gulf waters. The system attained storm status by 1 AM on the 31st and, due to a rapid intensification, minimal hurricane status by 4 PM on the same day. By 8 AM on the 1st, Chantal's center crossed the U.S. coastline and entered Southeast Texas near High Island (Galveston County). A tide of up to 7 feet MSL, sustained winds estimated at 70 knots and some very heavy rains accompanied the hurricane. Chantal's rains were perhaps the most significant feature of the hurricane as amounts of up to 12.1 inches officially and 20 inches unofficially were reported from locations in an east-west band about 20 miles south of downtown Houston and extending from Texas City to Rosenburg. The resultant flooding affected hundreds of homes across Southeast Texas. In addition to the flooding, beach erosion occurred along the coast in the High Island area, and although wind damage was relatively weak, numerous trees, power lines, fences and signs were blown down and some roof damage was done to homes, mobile homes and carports. There were about 3000 homes in Texas that had either water or wind damage, and the total damage from Chantal was near $100 million. There were two weak tornadoes spawned by Chantal that could be confirmed - one on Crystal Beach of the Bolivar Peninsula (Galveston County) and one near Iota, Louisiana. Of the thirteen deaths attributed to Chantal, only two occurred inland - two teenage boys drowned while rafting in floodwaters in College Station (Brazos County).
1993 - The Great Midwest Flood continued as the flood stage reached 49.58 feet at St. Louis, MO; nearly 20 feet above flood stage, breaking the record set just days earlier. The peak flow rate was about 1.08 million cubic feet per second. At this rate, Busch Stadium would have been filled to the brim in just 69 seconds. A fast-food restaurant moored along the waterfront broke away and floated down the Mississippi River where it slammed into the Interstate 55-70 Bridge.
A severe storm in Kent County, Michigan produced grapefruit-sized hail in Cannon Township, northeast of Grand Rapids.
Palm Springs, CA tied their all-time record high with 123° (7/10/1979, 7/28/1995 & 7/29/1995). San Francisco, CA hit 98°, the hottest ever recorded for the city in August. Yuma, AZ and Tucson, AZ set daily record highs with 117° and 112° respectively.
1997 - It was the earliest date in summer that a temperature reading below 50° had ever been recorded at Asheville, NC when the temperature dropped to 49°. The previous earliest was 8/5/1985. Other record lows included: Bristol, TN: 51°, Lynchburg, VA: 51°, Dulles Airport, VA: 54°, Greensboro, NC: 56° Raleigh, NC: 56°, Athens, GA: 56°, Augusta, GA: 56°, Columbia, SC: 57°, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: 57°, Atlanta, GA: 58°, Macon, GA: 60°, Wilmington, NC: 61°, Columbus, GA: 62°, Savannah, GA: 66° and Pensacola, FL: 67°.
1998
A record 220,000 lightning bolts were recorded in the United States on this date. The usual number on summer days is about 100,000.
2003 - Thunderstorms developed in the Borrego Valley in southern California and dropped an estimated 2.5 to 3 inches of rain in two hours. Flash flooding resulted. Half of the Ocotillo Wells Airport runway was inundated. A stationary thunderstorm produced an estimated two and a half inches of rain just south of Twentynine Palms. Spotters reported two feet of water in local washes along with water running across roads making them impassable.
High winds and temperatures of 95°-104° range transformed a carelessly tossed cigarette into a fire storm in just a few hours at Barierre, British Columbia Canada, forcing 3,500 residents to flee. The southern half of the province had been without rain for 6 weeks. In early August, more than 500 fires burned in the province.
Heavy rains produce flooding blamed for at least 20 deaths across Sudan in Africa. Flooding along the Gash River near Kassala was the worst in 70 years.
2007 - Tropical Storm Chantal dropped record rains across southeastern Newfoundland, up to 6 inches of rain in places on the eastern third of the Island. The storm damage was in the millions of dollars as towns were flooded and dozens of roads were washed out.
2008 - Record high temperatures prevailed across the inter-mountain west including: Denver, CO: 104°, Grand Junction, CO: 102°, Salt Lake City, UT: 103° and Colorado Springs, CO: 99°.
2009 - Thousands of country music fans camped in Camrose, Alberta Canada were enjoying the annual Big Valley Jamboree when strong winds suddenly roar through, toppling the concert stage. One person dies and at least 15 others were injured. Some houses in the area were damaged by the strong winds.
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1812 - A tornado struck parts of Westchester County, New York. The same storm today would have caused major destruction.
1861 - Captain Robert Fitz-Roy initiated a daily weather forecast for the following day for several regions of England. The service was well received by the public, but people in scientific circles criticized the effort saying that it lacked scientific merit. Fitz-Roy used data telegraphed the Meteorological Department in London from 15 stations across the country each morning. Disturbed by the criticism, Fitz-Roy killed himself less than four years later.
1917 - 80 forest fires were ignited in Trinity County, California when an electrical storm produced hundreds of lightning bolts over a small area which was tinder-box dry from severe drought.
1933-A major forest fire burned 200,000 acres of the same area burned by the 1933 Great Tillamook Burn in Oregon, along with 20,000 additional acres of prime timber. Much like the 1933 inferno, the fire raged out of control, fed by a strong east wind.
1947 - What turned out to be the hottest August on record started off on a decidedly cool note across parts of Michigan with record lows at: Houghton Lake, MI: 32°, Ste. St. Marie, MI: 36°, Muskegon, MI: 43°, Flint, MI: 43° and Grand Rapids, MI: 48°.
1954 - Mount Rainier in Washington State was still covered with sixteen inches of snow at the 5500 foot level following a big snow season. (David Ludlum)
1966 - A gunman goes up the University of Texas at Austin Clocktower and starts shooting people from the observation deck. Once the massacre is over, 17 people are killed, including one who died in 2001. 32 people are wounded in the deadly massacre. The UT Clocktower is the deadliest single day mass shooting before 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre, 1991 Killeen Luby's Massacre, and 2007 Virgina Tech Massacre.
Very strong winds from severe thunderstorms struck northwest Oklahoma. Winds gusted to 80 mph in Laverne, and blew a parked Cessna aircraft through a fence and into a ditch. As the storms approached Gage, winds gusted to 92 mph, causing blowing dust that reduced the visibility to near zero.
1969 - A severe hailstorm pummeled Montreal, Quebec Canada. Hailstones measured up to three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
1972 - This was the first of 25 straight days without measurable rain at Philadelphia, PA.
1975
Montreal, Quebec Canada recorded its hottest day on record as the temperature reached 100°.
1976 - Flight operations at the former Stapleton Airport in Denver, CO were suspended for 90 minutes when the airport tower radar was knocked out and water reached a foot deep on some taxi ramps after 1.50 inches of rain fell in one hour.
Record lows gripped Wisconsin including Green Bay, WI: 45°, Madison, WI: 47°, La Crosse, WI: 49° and Milwaukee, WI: 49°.
1978 - A severe thunderstorm developed in Beadle County, South Dakota during the afternoon and plunged southeastward. Winds up to 80 mph and hail the size of golf balls pelted the area. The hail piled up to six inches deep on roads and to three feet in the ditches. So much hail fell that it remained on the ground in some areas for 36 hours after the storm. Approximately 480,000 acres of nearly ripe crops were badly damaged or completely destroyed. Damage to crops and personal property was estimated at $4 million dollars.
Over 35 inches of rain fell in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio, TX between 7/31 and 8/4 as the remnants of Tropical Storm Amelia stalled. The heavy rains caused severe flash flooding.
1980 - The relentless heat from the summer of 1980 continued. Record highs included: Wichita, KS: 110°, Oklahoma City, OK 108°, Columbia, MO: 108°, Topeka, KS: 107°, Dodge City, KS: 106°, Little Rock, AR: 105°, St. Louis, MO: 104° and Springfield, MO: 103°.
1983 - A thunderstorm at Andrews AFB in Maryland produced a microburst wind gust of 149 mph. Air Force One with President Reagan aboard had landed there just 10 minutes earlier.
1985 - A nearly stationary thunderstorm deluged Cheyenne, WY, with rain and hail. Six inches of rain fell in six hours producing the most damaging flash flood of record for the state. Two to five feet of hail covered the ground following the storm, which claimed twelve lives, and caused 65 million dollars property damage. (Storm Data)
1986 - A powerful thunderstorm produced 100 mph winds and large hail in eastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri causing 71 million dollars damage, and injuring nineteen persons. It was one of the worst thunderstorms of record for Kansas. Crops were mowed to the ground in places and roofs blown off buildings along its path, 150 miles long and 30 miles wide, from near Abilene to southeast of Pittsburg. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Record heat gripped parts of the Midwest. A dozen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Lincoln, NE, with a reading of 105 degrees, Moline, IL, with an afternoon high of 103 degrees, and Burlington, IA, with a reading of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Two dozen cities in the Upper Midwest reported record high temperatures for the date, including La Crosse WI with a reading of 105 degrees. Highs of 103 degrees at Milwaukee, WI, and South Bend, IN, were records for the month of August. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Hurricane Chantal began over the Gulf of Mexico just off the shore of Yucatan near Progreso, Mexico on July 30th and began moving steadily north then northwest over the Gulf waters. The system attained storm status by 1 AM on the 31st and, due to a rapid intensification, minimal hurricane status by 4 PM on the same day. By 8 AM on the 1st, Chantal's center crossed the U.S. coastline and entered Southeast Texas near High Island (Galveston County). A tide of up to 7 feet MSL, sustained winds estimated at 70 knots and some very heavy rains accompanied the hurricane. Chantal's rains were perhaps the most significant feature of the hurricane as amounts of up to 12.1 inches officially and 20 inches unofficially were reported from locations in an east-west band about 20 miles south of downtown Houston and extending from Texas City to Rosenburg. The resultant flooding affected hundreds of homes across Southeast Texas. In addition to the flooding, beach erosion occurred along the coast in the High Island area, and although wind damage was relatively weak, numerous trees, power lines, fences and signs were blown down and some roof damage was done to homes, mobile homes and carports. There were about 3000 homes in Texas that had either water or wind damage, and the total damage from Chantal was near $100 million. There were two weak tornadoes spawned by Chantal that could be confirmed - one on Crystal Beach of the Bolivar Peninsula (Galveston County) and one near Iota, Louisiana. Of the thirteen deaths attributed to Chantal, only two occurred inland - two teenage boys drowned while rafting in floodwaters in College Station (Brazos County).
1993 - The Great Midwest Flood continued as the flood stage reached 49.58 feet at St. Louis, MO; nearly 20 feet above flood stage, breaking the record set just days earlier. The peak flow rate was about 1.08 million cubic feet per second. At this rate, Busch Stadium would have been filled to the brim in just 69 seconds. A fast-food restaurant moored along the waterfront broke away and floated down the Mississippi River where it slammed into the Interstate 55-70 Bridge.
A severe storm in Kent County, Michigan produced grapefruit-sized hail in Cannon Township, northeast of Grand Rapids.
Palm Springs, CA tied their all-time record high with 123° (7/10/1979, 7/28/1995 & 7/29/1995). San Francisco, CA hit 98°, the hottest ever recorded for the city in August. Yuma, AZ and Tucson, AZ set daily record highs with 117° and 112° respectively.
1997 - It was the earliest date in summer that a temperature reading below 50° had ever been recorded at Asheville, NC when the temperature dropped to 49°. The previous earliest was 8/5/1985. Other record lows included: Bristol, TN: 51°, Lynchburg, VA: 51°, Dulles Airport, VA: 54°, Greensboro, NC: 56° Raleigh, NC: 56°, Athens, GA: 56°, Augusta, GA: 56°, Columbia, SC: 57°, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: 57°, Atlanta, GA: 58°, Macon, GA: 60°, Wilmington, NC: 61°, Columbus, GA: 62°, Savannah, GA: 66° and Pensacola, FL: 67°.
1998
A record 220,000 lightning bolts were recorded in the United States on this date. The usual number on summer days is about 100,000.
2003 - Thunderstorms developed in the Borrego Valley in southern California and dropped an estimated 2.5 to 3 inches of rain in two hours. Flash flooding resulted. Half of the Ocotillo Wells Airport runway was inundated. A stationary thunderstorm produced an estimated two and a half inches of rain just south of Twentynine Palms. Spotters reported two feet of water in local washes along with water running across roads making them impassable.
High winds and temperatures of 95°-104° range transformed a carelessly tossed cigarette into a fire storm in just a few hours at Barierre, British Columbia Canada, forcing 3,500 residents to flee. The southern half of the province had been without rain for 6 weeks. In early August, more than 500 fires burned in the province.
Heavy rains produce flooding blamed for at least 20 deaths across Sudan in Africa. Flooding along the Gash River near Kassala was the worst in 70 years.
2007 - Tropical Storm Chantal dropped record rains across southeastern Newfoundland, up to 6 inches of rain in places on the eastern third of the Island. The storm damage was in the millions of dollars as towns were flooded and dozens of roads were washed out.
2008 - Record high temperatures prevailed across the inter-mountain west including: Denver, CO: 104°, Grand Junction, CO: 102°, Salt Lake City, UT: 103° and Colorado Springs, CO: 99°.
2009 - Thousands of country music fans camped in Camrose, Alberta Canada were enjoying the annual Big Valley Jamboree when strong winds suddenly roar through, toppling the concert stage. One person dies and at least 15 others were injured. Some houses in the area were damaged by the strong winds.
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For August 2nd
1944 - A hurricane formed in the Bahamas and came ashore at the North Carolina/South Carolina border. It moved north as a tropical storm, then curved to the northeast, passing across the lower Delaware Bay on its way out to sea. Philadelphia, PA received 2.39 inches of rain and 0.22 inches on the 3rd. This was the first of three tropical systems to affect the Mid Atlantic states in 1944.
1954 - Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail for thirty minutes in north central Kansas. One drift measured 200 feet long, seventy feet wide and three feet deep. (The Weather Channel)
1964 - Record heat continued across the Great Lakes and Midwest. All-time record highs included: Jump River, WI: 100° and Muskegon, MI: 99°. Preston, MN tied their all-time record high with 101°. Daily record highs were set at Lansing, MI: 100° and Grand Rapids, MI: 98°.
1970 - At least eight people drowned on Florida Panhandle beaches due to the effects of Hurricane Celia which passed hundreds of miles to the south and made landfall near Corpus Christi, TX. Rip tides and heavy surf with waves up to 10 feet pounded the beaches of Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa Counties. The Escambia County Sheriff reported 25-30 emergency calls with lifeguards rescuing at least 12 people. Tides ran about a foot above normal.
1975 - Record heat gripped New England. Highs of 104 degrees at Providence, RI, and 107 degrees at Chester and New Bedford, MA, established state records. The heat along the coast of Maine was unprecedented, with afternoon highs of 101 degrees at Bar Harbor and 104 degrees at Jonesboro. (The Weather Channel)
1978 - Very heavy rains of 12 to 14 inches fell across the Texas Hill Country during the nighttime and early morning hours causing severe flooding on the Guadalupe River. Up to 30 inches of rain fell during the 3-day period from the 1st through the 3rd. 27 people died in the Hill Country flooding along with tens of millions of dollars in damage. More flooding occurred during the early evening near Abilene, where six people were killed.
1979 - A powerful windstorm with gusts to 62 mph occurred across Montreal's West Island. The strong winds overturned boats, damaged cars, homes and left thousands of homes without power.
1980 - The intense heat wave continued in Texas. Dallas had their 41st consecutive day of 100° readings. The streak eventually reached 42 days. Abilene, TX was on their 41st consecutive day of 98° or higher, tying a record that dated back to 1952. El Paso, TX was on their 51st consecutive day of 100°+ temperatures. Other record highs included: Oklahoma City, OK: 110°, Tulsa, OK: 108° and Springfield, MO: 102°.
1985 - Wind shear from microburst caused the crash of a Delta Air Lines Flight 191 during its approach to Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport. 133 people were killed.
1987 - Hot weather continued in the central U.S. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Concordia KS with a reading of 106 degrees, and Downtown Kansas City, MO, with a high of 105 degrees.
Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Ohio Valley and the north central U.S. Thunder- storms in South Dakota produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Philip, and hail two inches in diameter at Faulkton. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Searing heat continued from the Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley to the Middle and Northern Atlantic Coast States. Twenty- six cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Chicago IL reported a record seven days of 100 degree heat for the year. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Low pressure representing the remains of Hurricane Chantal deluged north central Texas with heavy rain. Up to 6.50 inches drenched Stephens County, and Wichita Falls reported 2.22 inches of rain in just one hour. Bismarck, ND, reported a record warm morning low of 75 degrees, and record hot afternoon high of 101 degrees, and evening thunderstorms in North Dakota produced wind gusts to 78 mph at Lakota. Early evening thunderstorms in Florida produced high winds which downed trees at Christmas. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Across the Atlantic, Wales' hottest day on record occurred as Hawarden Bridge, Clwyd reached 95°.
1992 - An F1 Tornado tore the roof off a house near Lake Conroe (Montgomery County). Four perople were injured.
1993 - China Lake Naval Air Station in California set their all-time high temperature with 119°.
1995 - Hurricane Erin made landfall near Sebastian Inlet in southern Brevard County during the early morning hours. Brevard County bore the brunt of the storm with wind gusts to 100 mph between Melbourne Beach and Cocoa Beach knocking down trees on houses, cars, and power lines. The winds damaged thousands of roofs and completely destroyed some roofs. As Erin moved through Orlando during the morning wind gusts to 60 mph downed trees on power lines, houses and cars. About one-half million people were without power initially, several thousand were without power for more than five days. Heavy rains of up to 8 inches in three hours on the backside of Erin hit Brevard County again during the afternoon causing widespread flooding of low lying areas. Many houses were flooded west and northwest of Melbourne and many roads were impassable for several days. Erin moved into the Gulf of Mexico during the afternoon as a tropical storm, but regained hurricane strength before making a second Florida landfall near Pensacola on the morning of the 4th with sustained winds of 95 mph gusting to 110 mph. Widespread wind damage to houses and business was reported. Large trees crashed into houses, cars, and power lines. Most people in the area were without power for several days. Damage in the Pensacola area was estimated at $300 million dollars. The only deaths directly associated with Erin were at sea. A 234 foot gambling/cruise ship sunk 90 miles off Cape Canaveral around 4am on the 2nd killing three people. Five people drowned in the Gulf of Mexico.
1996 - Powerful thunderstorms moved across southwest and south central Kansas during the evening hours. In Pratt county eight train cars were blown off the tracks while the train was moving. This occurred one mile west of Cullison. One family was nearly run over by the derailing train cars. One boxcar ended up about 10 feet away from their vehicle. From three miles south of Lewis to Belpre, very strong thunderstorm winds killed calves, blew cars off the highway and blew down 60 power poles. A large tree was uprooted in Belpre. The tree was Belpre's historic balsam fir tree, a landmark in the town for 108 years. It also was the first balsam fir tree planted in Kansas. The tree was planted by a local blacksmith in 1888 after a trip back from Colorado. In Larned, very strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, damaged several buildings and power lines were blown down. There were unofficial and unconfirmed reports of 125 mph winds recorded on home stations.
2000 - An intense thunderstorm moved from northeastern Wyoming into the foothills of the northern Black Hills. Massive downburst winds estimated at 90 to 110 mph hit areas from eight miles west of Spearfish, SD to several miles east of Spearfish. Hail, to golf ball size accompanied the high winds and damaged roofs and siding throughout the region, although the winds caused the worst damage. In town, the intense winds shattered signs, blew over gas station awnings and the wind driven hail caused major damage to automotive and mobile home dealerships. At least ten mobile homes were unlivable and over 100 mobile homes had damage to siding, roofing and skirting. The airport at Spearfish had 27 planes damaged, and seven of those were destroyed beyond repair. Seven hangers at the airport were also damaged or destroyed. A massive amount of trees at Spearfish were either snapped in half or completely knocked over, leaving many roads impassable after the event. Roofing material sliced through an oxygen valve at the Spearfish Trout Farm and killed 100,000 out of 120,000 trout that the family raised. In the Spearfish city campground, more than 150 campers were there, in anticipation of the 60th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally the following week. Over 100 trees were blown over and many people had camping equipment, vehicles or motorcycles damaged by the falling trees. None of the trees fell on occupied tents, although several fell within inches of where people were sleeping in their tents. Four injuries were reported. One of the injuries required treatment at Rapid City Medical Center after someone was injured when his camper flipped over on the interstate. East of Spearfish, highway signs were blown over, large round bales of hay were blown several yards, and more trees were blown down or snapped off. Numerous outbuildings were also damaged, with debris scattered nearly a hundred yards downstream. In Sturgis, the damage was not as intense. The majority of the damage occurred to tents that were set up by vendors selling merchandise for the motorcycle rally. As the storm moved to the southeast, high winds over 60 mph were reported for nearly 45 minutes between Sturgis and Rapid City. In Rapid City, the National Weather Service office measured wind gusts of 70 mph. The storm weakened as it moved southeast of Rapid City, but was still at severe limits as it passed over the Badlands National Park and went southward into Bennett County. Observers in Martin reported 60 mph wind gusts. The storm dissipated before reaching Nebraska.
Rawlins, WY recorded their warmest day on record with a high of 98°.
2001 - Strong thunderstorms with very heavy rains during the morning hours caused extensive flash flooding in parts of the Chicago Metropolitan area. Rainfall fell at the rate of 3 to 4 inches per hour. Several major interstates were flooded and impassable including the Dan Ryan, the Edens and the Eisenhower. 228 vehicles were towed from flooded roads or viaducts. Totals included 4.78 inches in the Loop, 3.95 inches at Skokie and Wilmette, 3.50 inches at Wrigleyville, 3.41 inches at Willow Springs, and 3.04 inches at Burr Ridge. A 93 mile tunnel used to hold rain water during periods of flooding reportedly filled in just one hour to its capacity of 1.6 billion gallons of water. Nearly 10,000 homes and 56,000 customers were without power. Fortunately, no injuries or deaths were reported, but damages totaled $37 million dollars.
2006 - A severe storm system sweeping across Southern Ontario, Canada spawned 8 tornadoes, the most tornadoes from a single storm system to strike the province since 1985. Two of the tornadoes, which hit near Combermere and east of Bancroft, were rated F2.
The residents of Johannesburg, South Africa saw snow flurries for the first time in 8 years.
2008 - Damaging hail storms struck across the Grand Bend area on Lake Huron and south of London, Ontario Canada causing considerable crop damage. One soybean grower noted it was the most intense hailstorm he'd ever seen.
A 130-year-old high-temperature record fell at Denver, CO when the mercury hit 103°. This followed a record high minimum of 70°.
Severe thunderstorm produced 87 mph wind gust at Miles City, MT just before midnight. There were numerous reports of wind damage including car windows blown out.
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1944 - A hurricane formed in the Bahamas and came ashore at the North Carolina/South Carolina border. It moved north as a tropical storm, then curved to the northeast, passing across the lower Delaware Bay on its way out to sea. Philadelphia, PA received 2.39 inches of rain and 0.22 inches on the 3rd. This was the first of three tropical systems to affect the Mid Atlantic states in 1944.
1954 - Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail for thirty minutes in north central Kansas. One drift measured 200 feet long, seventy feet wide and three feet deep. (The Weather Channel)
1964 - Record heat continued across the Great Lakes and Midwest. All-time record highs included: Jump River, WI: 100° and Muskegon, MI: 99°. Preston, MN tied their all-time record high with 101°. Daily record highs were set at Lansing, MI: 100° and Grand Rapids, MI: 98°.
1970 - At least eight people drowned on Florida Panhandle beaches due to the effects of Hurricane Celia which passed hundreds of miles to the south and made landfall near Corpus Christi, TX. Rip tides and heavy surf with waves up to 10 feet pounded the beaches of Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa Counties. The Escambia County Sheriff reported 25-30 emergency calls with lifeguards rescuing at least 12 people. Tides ran about a foot above normal.
1975 - Record heat gripped New England. Highs of 104 degrees at Providence, RI, and 107 degrees at Chester and New Bedford, MA, established state records. The heat along the coast of Maine was unprecedented, with afternoon highs of 101 degrees at Bar Harbor and 104 degrees at Jonesboro. (The Weather Channel)
1978 - Very heavy rains of 12 to 14 inches fell across the Texas Hill Country during the nighttime and early morning hours causing severe flooding on the Guadalupe River. Up to 30 inches of rain fell during the 3-day period from the 1st through the 3rd. 27 people died in the Hill Country flooding along with tens of millions of dollars in damage. More flooding occurred during the early evening near Abilene, where six people were killed.
1979 - A powerful windstorm with gusts to 62 mph occurred across Montreal's West Island. The strong winds overturned boats, damaged cars, homes and left thousands of homes without power.
1980 - The intense heat wave continued in Texas. Dallas had their 41st consecutive day of 100° readings. The streak eventually reached 42 days. Abilene, TX was on their 41st consecutive day of 98° or higher, tying a record that dated back to 1952. El Paso, TX was on their 51st consecutive day of 100°+ temperatures. Other record highs included: Oklahoma City, OK: 110°, Tulsa, OK: 108° and Springfield, MO: 102°.
1985 - Wind shear from microburst caused the crash of a Delta Air Lines Flight 191 during its approach to Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport. 133 people were killed.
1987 - Hot weather continued in the central U.S. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Concordia KS with a reading of 106 degrees, and Downtown Kansas City, MO, with a high of 105 degrees.
Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Ohio Valley and the north central U.S. Thunder- storms in South Dakota produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Philip, and hail two inches in diameter at Faulkton. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Searing heat continued from the Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley to the Middle and Northern Atlantic Coast States. Twenty- six cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Chicago IL reported a record seven days of 100 degree heat for the year. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Low pressure representing the remains of Hurricane Chantal deluged north central Texas with heavy rain. Up to 6.50 inches drenched Stephens County, and Wichita Falls reported 2.22 inches of rain in just one hour. Bismarck, ND, reported a record warm morning low of 75 degrees, and record hot afternoon high of 101 degrees, and evening thunderstorms in North Dakota produced wind gusts to 78 mph at Lakota. Early evening thunderstorms in Florida produced high winds which downed trees at Christmas. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Across the Atlantic, Wales' hottest day on record occurred as Hawarden Bridge, Clwyd reached 95°.
1992 - An F1 Tornado tore the roof off a house near Lake Conroe (Montgomery County). Four perople were injured.
1993 - China Lake Naval Air Station in California set their all-time high temperature with 119°.
1995 - Hurricane Erin made landfall near Sebastian Inlet in southern Brevard County during the early morning hours. Brevard County bore the brunt of the storm with wind gusts to 100 mph between Melbourne Beach and Cocoa Beach knocking down trees on houses, cars, and power lines. The winds damaged thousands of roofs and completely destroyed some roofs. As Erin moved through Orlando during the morning wind gusts to 60 mph downed trees on power lines, houses and cars. About one-half million people were without power initially, several thousand were without power for more than five days. Heavy rains of up to 8 inches in three hours on the backside of Erin hit Brevard County again during the afternoon causing widespread flooding of low lying areas. Many houses were flooded west and northwest of Melbourne and many roads were impassable for several days. Erin moved into the Gulf of Mexico during the afternoon as a tropical storm, but regained hurricane strength before making a second Florida landfall near Pensacola on the morning of the 4th with sustained winds of 95 mph gusting to 110 mph. Widespread wind damage to houses and business was reported. Large trees crashed into houses, cars, and power lines. Most people in the area were without power for several days. Damage in the Pensacola area was estimated at $300 million dollars. The only deaths directly associated with Erin were at sea. A 234 foot gambling/cruise ship sunk 90 miles off Cape Canaveral around 4am on the 2nd killing three people. Five people drowned in the Gulf of Mexico.
1996 - Powerful thunderstorms moved across southwest and south central Kansas during the evening hours. In Pratt county eight train cars were blown off the tracks while the train was moving. This occurred one mile west of Cullison. One family was nearly run over by the derailing train cars. One boxcar ended up about 10 feet away from their vehicle. From three miles south of Lewis to Belpre, very strong thunderstorm winds killed calves, blew cars off the highway and blew down 60 power poles. A large tree was uprooted in Belpre. The tree was Belpre's historic balsam fir tree, a landmark in the town for 108 years. It also was the first balsam fir tree planted in Kansas. The tree was planted by a local blacksmith in 1888 after a trip back from Colorado. In Larned, very strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, damaged several buildings and power lines were blown down. There were unofficial and unconfirmed reports of 125 mph winds recorded on home stations.
2000 - An intense thunderstorm moved from northeastern Wyoming into the foothills of the northern Black Hills. Massive downburst winds estimated at 90 to 110 mph hit areas from eight miles west of Spearfish, SD to several miles east of Spearfish. Hail, to golf ball size accompanied the high winds and damaged roofs and siding throughout the region, although the winds caused the worst damage. In town, the intense winds shattered signs, blew over gas station awnings and the wind driven hail caused major damage to automotive and mobile home dealerships. At least ten mobile homes were unlivable and over 100 mobile homes had damage to siding, roofing and skirting. The airport at Spearfish had 27 planes damaged, and seven of those were destroyed beyond repair. Seven hangers at the airport were also damaged or destroyed. A massive amount of trees at Spearfish were either snapped in half or completely knocked over, leaving many roads impassable after the event. Roofing material sliced through an oxygen valve at the Spearfish Trout Farm and killed 100,000 out of 120,000 trout that the family raised. In the Spearfish city campground, more than 150 campers were there, in anticipation of the 60th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally the following week. Over 100 trees were blown over and many people had camping equipment, vehicles or motorcycles damaged by the falling trees. None of the trees fell on occupied tents, although several fell within inches of where people were sleeping in their tents. Four injuries were reported. One of the injuries required treatment at Rapid City Medical Center after someone was injured when his camper flipped over on the interstate. East of Spearfish, highway signs were blown over, large round bales of hay were blown several yards, and more trees were blown down or snapped off. Numerous outbuildings were also damaged, with debris scattered nearly a hundred yards downstream. In Sturgis, the damage was not as intense. The majority of the damage occurred to tents that were set up by vendors selling merchandise for the motorcycle rally. As the storm moved to the southeast, high winds over 60 mph were reported for nearly 45 minutes between Sturgis and Rapid City. In Rapid City, the National Weather Service office measured wind gusts of 70 mph. The storm weakened as it moved southeast of Rapid City, but was still at severe limits as it passed over the Badlands National Park and went southward into Bennett County. Observers in Martin reported 60 mph wind gusts. The storm dissipated before reaching Nebraska.
Rawlins, WY recorded their warmest day on record with a high of 98°.
2001 - Strong thunderstorms with very heavy rains during the morning hours caused extensive flash flooding in parts of the Chicago Metropolitan area. Rainfall fell at the rate of 3 to 4 inches per hour. Several major interstates were flooded and impassable including the Dan Ryan, the Edens and the Eisenhower. 228 vehicles were towed from flooded roads or viaducts. Totals included 4.78 inches in the Loop, 3.95 inches at Skokie and Wilmette, 3.50 inches at Wrigleyville, 3.41 inches at Willow Springs, and 3.04 inches at Burr Ridge. A 93 mile tunnel used to hold rain water during periods of flooding reportedly filled in just one hour to its capacity of 1.6 billion gallons of water. Nearly 10,000 homes and 56,000 customers were without power. Fortunately, no injuries or deaths were reported, but damages totaled $37 million dollars.
2006 - A severe storm system sweeping across Southern Ontario, Canada spawned 8 tornadoes, the most tornadoes from a single storm system to strike the province since 1985. Two of the tornadoes, which hit near Combermere and east of Bancroft, were rated F2.
The residents of Johannesburg, South Africa saw snow flurries for the first time in 8 years.
2008 - Damaging hail storms struck across the Grand Bend area on Lake Huron and south of London, Ontario Canada causing considerable crop damage. One soybean grower noted it was the most intense hailstorm he'd ever seen.
A 130-year-old high-temperature record fell at Denver, CO when the mercury hit 103°. This followed a record high minimum of 70°.
Severe thunderstorm produced 87 mph wind gust at Miles City, MT just before midnight. There were numerous reports of wind damage including car windows blown out.
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_hi ... hp?m=8&d=2
http://www.examiner.com/article/weather ... ind-floods
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_august